Killing in the name of...Mr. 007

Duncan over at yellow-bricks has a great series called 'ESXi Lessons Learned' where essentially he posts his findings/gotchas/nuiances/unique traits of working with and implementing ESXi. One part of his series discussed losing very low level capabilities such as a very badly hung/non-responsive VM that is not responding to the VIC/vSphere client or other typically used 3rd party mgmt tools (think RCLI/vMA/vSphere, VI Toolkit, vSphere CLI). (read more on this later)

Mr. 007 makes a valid point that many of his customers/engagments are heavily considering and there is a general push towards the thin more secure code base as VMware themselves has expressed this is the way of the future and they do not intend to keep managing two codebases in the long run (although i have my doubts about this and do not think ESX classic is going anywhere anytime soon...say next 3-5 years).

So interesting enough I to am neck deep in a potential large ESXi deployment (3000+ VM's in the next 3 years and that's just targeted P2V migrations and not net new) so we are hashing it out with our chosen vendor that is assisting us with the design phase of this project the drawbacks and gotcha's and if there really are any showstoppers using the thin release of the next-gen enterprise grade VMware ESXi hypervisor.

Ok, onto the juicy tidbit, so we're back to that nasty hung VM that just won't go down gracefully to save our lives. What is our last resort when the house is on fire and all hell breaks loose and we want to bring down a VM semi-gracefully without yanking the rug out from under it's vdisks. Well in ESX classi w/ a Service Console is present and you would ssh in and potentially issue a cmd such as 'ps aux | grep vmx' and look for the hung VM parent process ID and kill -9 that process. Another option may be to try a 'vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms' and then 'vim-cmd vmsvc/poweroff '. But alas neither of these are happening remotely on ESXi of course with the service console missing and no sshd daemon listening by default. First trick is to enable 'unsupported mode' or get to the DCUI if that is not an option. If you do not know how to do this google it, there are plenty of articles out there that clearly explain how to enable this feature.

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