Thursday, December 8, 2011

ESXi technical support mode

ESXi Tech Support Mode is inactive by default installation, while you could enabled it from ESXi configuration via vSphere client. (Configuration->Software->Advanced Settings->Boot->VMKernel.Boot.techSupportMode (checkbox)

Since the setting is at Boot section, so a reboot is required to enable or disable tech support mode for ESXi

From DCUI (iLO, DRAC, AMM or local console), type ALT + F1 to display ESXi console screen, and type unsupported, and answer the password for root.

Defaut shell for ESXi console is ashell

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