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Written by: Simon Grenier on Mar 17 2010, 9:50am

Enable SSH in VMware ESXi

By default SSH is not enabled in ESXi. Here are simple steps to enable it.

 

 

1. Connect to the ESXi console and press “ALT+F1”.

2. Type “unsupported” and press <Enter>. (Nothing will appear on the screen as you type this)

3. Enter the Root password then hit <Enter>.

4. Edit the inetd.conf file using vi.

vi /etc/inetd.conf

5. Uncommented the SSH line (remove the #).

6. Restart the service.

/sbin/services.sh restart

 

Now you can connect using SSH:

# ssh root@vmware_esxi_host

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