Activated SSH on ESXi 4.1

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

In VMware ESXi 4.0 you needed a small a trick to activated SSH on your Host. In VMware ESXi 4.1 its very easy to activate SSH.

Press F2 to Customize System Settings
Navigate to Troubleshooting Options
Now you can enable Remote Tech Support (SSH)

And by the way, installing ESXi in VMware Fusion on my Mac is really awesome for presentation and testing.

Here is a link how you do this with VMware ESXi 4.0

Activate ESXi Console

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

If you use VMware ESXi you may wanna use the console to active SSH or maybe install HP Managment Tools (could also be any other management softtware). You don’t really need to do that on ESXi but its good to know that this is working.

First press ALT+F1

Now type unsupported (you don’t really see any thing) now hit the ENTER key

WOW you are in the console now