Red Hat LINUX VIRTUAL SERVER 5.1 - ADMINISTRATION Uživatelský manuál stáhnout pdf (Strana 10)

Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces

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ESXi Shell Access with the Direct Console

AnESXisystemincludesadirectconsole(alsocalledDCUI)thatallowsyoutostartandstopthesystemand

toperformalimitedsetofmaintenanceandtroubleshootingtasks.ThedirectconsoleincludestheESXiShell,

whichisdisabledbydefault.YoucanenabletheESXiShellinthedirect

consoleorbyusingthevSphereClient.

Youcanenablelocalshellaccessorremoteshellaccess:

 LocalshellaccessallowsyoutologintotheshelldirectlyfromtheDirectConsole.See“EnablingLocal

ESXiShellAccess”onpage 10.

 Remoteshell(SSH)accessallowsyoutoconnecttothehostusingashellsuchasPuTTY,specifyauser

nameandpassword,andruncommandsintheshell.

TheESXiShellincludesallESXCLIcommands,asetofdeprecatedesxcfg-commands,andasetof

commandsfortroubleshootingandremediation.

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Enabling Local ESXi Shell Access

YoucanenabletheESXiShellfromthedirectconsoleorfromthevSphereClient.

Ifyouhaveaccesstothedirectconsole,youcanenabletheESXiShellfromthere.

To enable the ESXi Shell in the direct console

1AtthedirectconsoleoftheESXihost,pressF2andprovidecredentialswhenprompted.

2ScrolltoTroubleshootingOptions

andpressEnter.

3 ChooseEnableESXiShellandpressEnter.

Ontheleft,EnableESXiShellchangestoDisableESXiShell.Ontheright,ESXiShellisDisabled

changestoESXiShellisEnabled.

4PressEscuntilyoureturntothemaindirectconsolescreen.

Ifyoudonothave

accesstothedirectconsole,youcanenabletheESXiShellfromthevSphereClient.

To enable the local or remote ESXi Shell from the vSphere Client

1 Selectthehost,clicktheConfigurationtab,andclickSecurityProfileintheSoftwarepanel.

2IntheServicessection,clickProperties.

3 SelectESXiShellandclickOptions.

4 ChangetheESXiShelloptions.

 TochangetheStartuppolicyacrossreboots,clickStartandstopwithhostandrebootthehost.

 Totemporarilystartorstoptheservice,clicktheStartorStopbutton.

5ClickOK.

AfteryouhaveenabledtheESXiShell,youcanuseitfromthatmonitororthroughaserialport.

TheESXiShelltimeoutsettingspecifieshowlongyoucanleaveanunusedsessionopen.By

default,the

timeoutfortheESXiShellis0,whichmeansthesessionremainsopenevenifitisunused.Ifyouchangethe

timeout,forexample,to30minutes,youhavetologinagainafterthetimeoutperiodhaselapsed.

MPORTANTAllESXCLIcommandsthatareavailableintheESXiShellarealsoincludedinthevCLIpackage.

VMwarerecommendsyouinstallthevCLIpackageonasupportedWindowsorLinuxsystemordeploythe

vMAvirtualappliance,andruncommandsagainstyourESXihosts.RuncommandsdirectlyintheESXi

Shell

introubleshootingsituationsonly.

NOTEIfyouareloggedinwhenthetimeoutperiodelapses,yoursessionwillpersist.However,theESXiShell

willbedisabled,preventingotherusersfromloggingin.

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