Powershell Shutdown VM Script - powershell

Question

I have a script that can shutdown vms based on names entered into an array.
That part works fine, but the next part after the shutdown initiates is supposed to wait for a period and notify how many vms it is waiting to shut down before it moves on to another phase of shutting down other vms.
I am not getting any vms counted out of the array. Here is the code for a particular phase:
$waittime = 5 #Seconds
#Create Phase 1 Array
[Array] $PHASE1 = "TestSvr2008"
# For each of the VMs on the Hyperv hosts that are powered on
Foreach ($VM in ($PHASE1 | %{ Get-VM | Where { $_.State -eq "Running" }})){
# Shutdown the guest cleanly
$VM | Stop-VM -Confirm:$false }
# Set the amount of time to wait before assuming the remaining powered on guests are stuck
$waittime = 120 #Seconds
$Time = (Get-Date).TimeofDay
do {
# Wait for the VMs to be Shutdown cleanly
sleep 1.0
$timeleft = $waittime - ($Newtime.seconds)
$numvms = ($PHASE1 | %{ Get-VM | Where { $_.$VM -eq $PHASE1 }}).Count
Write "Waiting for shutdown of $numvms VMs or until $timeleft seconds"
$Newtime = (Get-Date).TimeofDay - $Time
} until ((#($PHASE1 | %{ Get-VM | Where { $_.$VM -eq $PHASE1 }}).Count) -eq 0 -or ($Newtime).Seconds -ge $waittime)
Thanks

Answer 1

This line in do and until blocks has issues:
$numvms = ($PHASE1 | %{ Get-VM | Where { $_.$VM -eq $PHASE1 }}).Count
$_.$VM is typo, it should be $_.VM
$_.VM -eq $PHASE1 tries to check if VM name is equal to array. Comparisons do not work that way.
ForeEach-Object is unnecessary
Get-Vm accepts array of VM names by pipeline or directly as Name parameter. So you can do this:
$numvms = ($PHASE1 | Get-VM).Count
or
$numvms = (Get-VM -Name $PHASE1).Count