{"id":234,"date":"2011-10-05T09:49:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:49:51","slug":"log-into-the-vmware-esxi-service-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Access VMWare ESXi v4.1 and later SSH service console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare service console is not hidden anymore (starting with 4.1), here is how to enable its remote (SSH) access.<\/p>\n<p>1- In vSphere Client, click on the <strong>ESXi host<\/strong> and go to <strong>Configuration<\/strong> tab and then on <strong>Security Profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereclient1.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"vSphereclient1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereclient1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2- Click on <strong>Properties<\/strong> (upper right) and then select <strong>Remote Tech Support (SSH)<\/strong> and click <strong>Options.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereclient2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236\" title=\"vSphereclient2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereclient2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3- In <strong>Remote Tech Support (SSH)<\/strong> window, select <strong>Start and stop with host<\/strong> and then click OK on the two opened windows.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereclient3.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237\" title=\"vSphereclient3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereclient3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4- Use your favorite SSH application (mine is ExtraPutty) and connect to the remote console.\u00a0 IP is the same you use to connect to vSphere client and the port is the standard SSH port: 22.\u00a0 Username and password are also the same as vSphere client.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereEnableSSH1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" title=\"vSphereEnableSSH\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vSphereEnableSSH1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re now ready to screw things around pretty badly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare service console is not hidden anymore (starting with 4.1), here is how to enable its remote (SSH) access. 1- In vSphere Client, click on the ESXi host and go to Configuration tab and then on Security Profile. 2- Click on Properties (upper right) and then select Remote Tech Support (SSH) and click Options. 3- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}