Enable SSH on ESXi 5 via vSphere Client

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

In the first post I wrote how you can enable SSH on the ESXi 5.0 host. In this post I show you how you can enable or activate SSH on the ESXi 5.0 hosts via the vSphere Client.

First start the vSphere Client
Select the ESXi host in the configurations tab
Select Security Profile
Click on Properties in the upper right corner and you will get the a popup with all the services on this ESXi 5.0 hosts. Select the SSH service and press the Options button.
Now you can start the services and set the startup options
press okay and you are done..

Activate SSH on ESXi 4.1 via vSphere Client

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Some months ago I wrote a post about how to activate SSH on a ESXi 4.1 via console. But you can also activate SSH with the vSphere Client.

Login to the vSphere Client
Click on the configuration tab
Click on Security profile
Click on Properties
Click on Remote Tech Support (SSH)
Click on Options and choose the startup policy and click start
Now you can verify that the daemon shows as running in the Services Properties window