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khaliqamar
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how to find the VMs running on ESXi (if host crashed)

hello,

one of my host lost connection from vcenter so during troubleshooting, i removed it from VC and now i cant reconnect.

the host is not responding its service console, though ssh or even i tried virtual client direct connect which also did not work.

none of other way left to reach at console of esxi.

how i can find the name of virtual machines running on it because now when i will hard reboot it. i have to start them manually and i am not sure how many VMs were running on it and which one are running on it.

any suggestion

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rcporto
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To get a list of running virtual machines, identified by World ID, UUID, Display Name, and path to the .vmx configuration file, using this command:

esxcli vm process list

More info: VMware KB: Powering off a virtual machine on an ESXi host

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