Virtual Center and Virtual Machine

[rayan68]

I have a Virtual Center installed in a physical machine , I would like to perform some upgrade in this server , but as a backup plan I want to convert this machine to a virtual machine , so in case of anything gose wrong with the physical server , I know at that time I will not be able to connect to the virtual center , is there is anyway to power on the virtual machine which has the virtual center from the command line. and can I do that by login to the ESX server directly using SSH ?

[weinstein5]

You can also connect directly to the ESX host via the VI Client and start the machine that way -

[rayan68]

But is there is a command can power on a virtual machine when I login to the ESX server in case I have to use it ?

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

You can use this logged in as root - vmware-cmd /nas/vms/FreeBSD/FreeBSD.vmx startas as an example to start a FreeDSD VM stored on a NAS device

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