Management Agents

Restarting Virtual Center agent

service mgmt-vmware restart

Virtual Machines

Stopping VM via ESX host console

Best not to do this unless the VM won’t stop via the VIClient:

1. Logon to ESX host console
2. vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename>/<vmname>/<vmname> stop

If that doesn’t work:

1. vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename>/<vmname>/<vmname> stop hard

If that doesn’t work, then:

1. ps auxfww | grep <vmname>
2. Find PID of running vm
3. kill -9 <PID>