When I install new ESX4 Hosts, most of the time I patch them manually, have the patches with me on a USB Stick. This saves me lot of time. Use following cli command on ESX4 to put the host into maintenance mode: vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter Put the Patch Archive e.g. ESX400-200909001.zip to the ESX4 [...]
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How to kill a Virtual Machine on ESX 3.5 / 4.0
User following command on the esx console to get the pid of the “running” virtual machine: ps auxfww | grep Name_of_the_VM kill -9 PID (numer of the PID)
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