How to properly shut down virtual machines on ESXi 5 with a script?

Question

VMware

There is an ESXi 5.5 host. It runs a bunch of virtual machines with different operating systems. It is required using a script or other automatic method to gracefully shut down all machines. What script do you recommend?

Answer 1

vicfg-hostops.pl --server ip_address --username root --password password --operation shutdown

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Answer 2

And that the standard settings are not in vogue now?