ESX 4/5 – Grant Root User SSH Access
for ESXi click here KB ID 0000278 Problem ESX is built on Linux – and in the Linux environment, to root user is denied SSH access, there are valid security reasons for this, and you can SSH to the ESX box as a normal user and then issue the “su -” command to switch to root access. However, some of us still want to SSH in as root, here’s how to do it. Solution 1. Create a user on your ESX Server (Ensure the...
ESX – Shut down from Script/Command
KB ID 0000279 Problem I was asked the question last week “How do I shutdown my ESX server remotely from script”. The client had a temperature sensor in their server room and wanted to shutdown their ESX host if it got too hot, all his Windows servers got sent an SNMP trap from the temperature sensor, and that fires off a script to shut down the Windows servers. But this left the ESX host up and running. Solution I drew a...