To list the virtual machines installed on a VMWare ESXi server, loging to the server via ssh and enter the following command:<\/p>\n
~ # esxcli vms vm list
\nVMDC1
\n World ID: 9375350
\n Process ID: 0
\n VMX Cartel ID: 9375349
\n UUID: 56 4d 7e ca e0 c8 15 17-53 2e 21 de 2f 57 6b f0
\n Display Name: VMDC1
\n Config File: \/vmfs\/volumes\/4cd70f88-eac98d60-3346-b8ac6f907086\/VMDC1\/VMDC1.vmx<\/p>\n
There are several other options to the esxcli command, but another potentially useful option is the following command used to kill a hung VM:<\/p>\n
~ # esxcli vms vm kill To list the virtual machines installed on a VMWare ESXi server, loging to the server via ssh and enter the following command: ~ # esxcli vms vm list VMDC1 World ID: 9375350 Process ID: 0 VMX Cartel ID: 9375349 UUID: 56 4d 7e ca e0 c8 15 17-53 2e 21 de 2f 57 6b f0 [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[160,33],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-esx","tag-vmware"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n~ # esxcli vms vm kill –type soft|hard|force<\/em> –world-id World ID<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"