Some ESXi CLI Commands

Having not used the ESXi command line as often as I should, I logged in and found myself in an unfamiliar place. My objective was to enter maintenance mode, reboot the host, and exit maintenance mode.

ESXi CLI Enter Maintenance Mode

vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

ESXi CLI Exit Maintenance Mode

vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit

ESXi CLI Reboot the host

reboot

Ok, so reboot should have been obvious, however, being used to running shutdown -r now… it was not so much.

Resources:

I adapted the maintenance mode commands from here: http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/05/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-on-esx-host-from-command-line/