Comments on: Reboot or Shutdown ESXi 5.x Host Using Command Line

By: Damián Rodríguez

Damián Rodríguez — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:32:22 +0000

Very useful post!

You can also shutdown all host VMs using two ESXi integrated scripts:

/sbin/shutdown.sh && /sbin/poweroff

Source: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/07/vmware-esxi-apagar-todas-las-vms-desde-SSH.html

By: shailen

shailen — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:52:25 +0000

how to put ESXi 5.0 in maintenance mode through CMD…

By: gman

gman — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:57:49 +0000

“vicfg-hostops –operation reboot” doesn’t work in 5.5, just logged in via ssh and tried it. nothing worse then a post without validity… now if there is something else you left out then again, nothing worse than a post without all the details…

By: Dan A

Dan A — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:45:04 +0000

Enter maintenance mode – esxcli system maintenanceMode set -e on
Exit maintenance mode – esxcli system maintenanceMode set -e off
Status – esxcli system maintenanceMode get

By: Garfje

Garfje — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:05:18 +0000

More annoyingly, “maintenancemode” has to be “maintenanceMode” or the dummy is spat. Not very consistent.

By: vcdxnz001

vcdxnz001 — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:43:47 +0000

In reply to Ronald. If SSH is disabled, the host is in lockdown mode, and your trying to do this programmatically the reboot command isn\'t an option.

By: vcdxnz001

vcdxnz001 — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:42:11 +0000

In reply to Ronald. DCUI and GUI work just fine. That really wasn\'t the point. Doing it programmatically from either vCLI, vMA or through SSH. VIM-CMD is deprecated as far as I know so I wouldn\'t want to rely on it going forward.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:18:05 +0000

Or issue a plain "reboot" right there at the prompt. No apparent reason why this should not be done, when in maintenance mode…or even when not to simulate an unexpected shutdown/reboot…

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:16:33 +0000

I believe "vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter" and "vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit" still work just fine. Matter of factly I have used them to upgrade a 5.1 to 5.5 using the CLI. As for the reboot, "dcui" will also allow you to reboot the box.