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vSphere ESXi access without vSphere client

Today I stumbled on quite irritating problem. If you are OSX or Linux user and your ESXi setup doesn’t have vCenter (which comes with a price) then you are: Doomed to run a VM with Windows and install a vSphere client there (it requires Windows and .NET) Lose your time over t…

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Kill a hanging machine in VMware ESXi

It might not be possible to kill a “running” (in reality hanging) VM from Vcenter GUI or using vSphere Client. In such situation a login via SSH to ESXi host is needed, list all VMs and kill the appropriate one. esxcli vm process list esxcli vm process kill PROCESS_ID