Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Enable SSH on VMWare 5 ESXi

How to Enable SSH Access on VMWare vSphere 5 ESXi



Enabling SSH remote access to the console of an esxi 5.0 vmware host server is the same as in ESXi 4.1 (not 4.0 and earlier). In 5.0 vmware vSphere ESXi and 4.1 vmware vSphere ESXi it can be accomplished using the vSphere client. With earlier versions, like enabling SSH on ESXi 4.0, it had to be done via the server console.

Enable SSH on VMWare 5 ESXi

How to Enable SSH Access on VMWare 5 ESXi


Enable SSH for remote connections from the vSphere Client
perform the following short steps to enable access to the ESXi Shell using the vSphere Client:
- Logon to the up to date VSphere client
- Select from the list of hosts the ESXi host you want to configure and choose Configuration then -> Security profile
- From the Services section under Security Profile, select Properties
- Select the SSH option in Properties and choose Options
- Select Start to start SSH on the host.
- Repeat the process for each ESXi 5 host.

There is no global or farm-like setting that would allow you to do all your hosts at once. Perhaps that will come in the next version ESXi 6 .


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

To enable sshonvmware 4.1 itks done the smae way, through thevshere client.
Prior to 4.1,it had to be done at the vmware host console.
Thank you for the post.

Anonymous said...

thanks you for this post.

Anonymous said...

This solved my problems - thanks :-)