Unable to Access CLI Mode of ESX5.5

[cybermate1122]

Dear All,

I am running ESX5.5 on vmware 10 Workstation, its running perfectly, but am not able to access its command line mode, i pressed the relevent KEYS to shift the mode, but the curser keeps blinking, and login&pwd prompt is not appearing.

Cybermate

[admin · Accepted solution]

Have you enabled the ESXi Shell under Troubleshooting Mode Options?

[cybermate1122]

Yes Dear now it worked thanks.

One More thing, Iam Putting the following command to mount the Windows Folder containing ISO images but getting this error. I check all the Permissions ang can ping that System which is containing ISO Images. Please Guide

Cybermate

[admin]

ESXI does not have a mount command, nor does it support smbfs.  It does support NFS with the esxcfg-nas command.

[cybermate1122]

So how can i do it??

[admin]

See HOW TO: Share Windows Folders by Using Server for NFS for information on exporting the ISO images using NFS.  Then use esxcfg-nas to mount the NFS file system.