Tag Archive: kill

How to – kill / power off a virtual machine using esxcli command

Andreas Lesslhumer 24. November 2014 3 How to…, Management, Troubleshooting, VMware cmd, command, esxcli, esxtop, kill, power off, process, virtual machine, VM

If you want to power off or kill a virtual machine running on an ESXi host you can do this using the following esxcli command: connect a console to your ESXi host (eg. SSH or ESXi Shell) To get a…
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How to – kill a running virtual machine process with ESXTOP

Andreas Lesslhumer 23. May 2013 0 How to…, Management, Troubleshooting esxtop, kill, locked file, troubleshooting, vmware, vsphere 5

Sometimes it is necessary to kill a running virtual machine process (eg. if there is locked file). Of course you can do this with the kill command: “kill -9 PID” …or you can do it in ESXTOP! .) run ESXTOP…
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