tested on ESXi 5.5 connect a console to your ESXi host (eg. SSH or ESXi Shell) To get a list of all VMs running on the host use this command: esxcli vm process list To kill / power off the virtual machine use the following command: esxcli vm process kill –type=xxxx –world-id=nnnn for -type=xxxx use: soft, […]
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Rename VM Folder and Files in ESXI Shell
I had to do this when there is no vmotion available – Tested in ESXi 6.5 enable SSH on your ESXi host Use Putty or something similar to connect to the ESXi host Run the following commands (in italics) cd /vmfs/volumes/<datastore name> ie if the datastore containing the VM is named datastore1 then you would […]
ESXi Firewall Commands – ESXi Shell
You can configure the ESXi firewall at the command line. Firewall Configuration Using the ESXi Shell The vSphere Web Client graphical user interface provides the preferred means of performing many configuration tasks. However, you can use the ESXi Shell to configure ESXi at the command line. Firewall Commands Command Description esxcli network firewall get Returns […]