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asvidra
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Service Console

Can anyone explain about service console and give a detailed.

Activities through or action taken through Service console, commands used in Service Console.

Basically Purpose of Service console and why it was removed in ESXi ?

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jrmunday
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Starting with ESXi 5.0 the Service Console has been removed, and is no longer a necessary component. All management tasks that were previously done in the Service Console can now be performed by esxcli commands in the ESXi Shell, and remotely using vCLI, Power CLI, or the vSphere Management Appliance.


What is the difference between the vSphere ESX and ESXi architectures?
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/faqs.html

vSphere ESX and ESXi are both bare-metal hypervisor  architectures that install directly on the server hardware. Both provide  industry-leading performance and scalability; the difference resides in  the architecture components and the operational management of the  vSphere host. Although neither hypervisor architectures relies on an OS  for resource management, the vSphere ESX architecture relied on a Linux  operating system, called the Console OS (COS) or service console, to  perform two management functions: executing scripts and installing third  party agents for hardware monitoring, backup or systems management. In  the vSphere ESXi architecture, the service console has been removed,  drastically reducing the hypervisor footprint and completing the ongoing  trend of migrating management functionality from the local command line  interface to remote management tools. The smaller code base of vSphere  ESXi represents a smaller “attack surface” and less code to patch,  improving reliability and security. The functionally of the service  console is replaced by remote command line interfaces and adherence to  system management standards.

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