How to restart the management service of the esxi remotely

[zhangfred_vm]

Hi Friends,

The console of the ESxi Server is holding on the "Starting managment service " screen,  we can't enter the ESXi console.

So how to restart the management serivce of the ESXi remotely?

Thanks.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Do you have tech support mode (local or SSH) enabled?  If so you can run services.sh restart  or get to the logs to see what is hung.  If you press ALT+F12 at the console do you see any errors?

[zhangfred_vm]

Can't enter the service console from the ssh, the tech support mode is not open, how to open it remotely?

thank you.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

You can do it with the vSphere client (which I assume is probably not working? ) or you can do it with PowerCLI. But PowerCLI would require that the API be working on the host.

[zhangfred_vm]

thanks,

I install the powercli, cut can't find the vmware-vim-cmd commands to open the ssh in the esxi server.

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

If you can connect to the host you can then run this:  Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"} )}

[zhangfred_vm]

Thank you.