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VMWare Power On Virtual Machine

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module will log into the Web API of VMWare and try to power on a specified Virtual Machine.

Author(s)

  • theLightCosine <theLightCosine@metasploit.com>

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/admin/vmware/poweron_vm
msf auxiliary(poweron_vm) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(poweron_vm) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(poweron_vm) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(poweron_vm) > run 

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