This method will stop not only the VM, but also all child processes.Īfter such a “hard reset”, the installed OS will boot in the Recovery mode. Now you have to press “ k” (kill) and enter the LWID number of the virtual machine that you want to force shut down.Īnd the last way of VM “hard“ power off is to use the kill tool.
In the Name column, find the virtual machine to be stopped and note its LWID number in the corresponding column. Then press “ f” (to select fields to be displayed), “ c” (to display the LWID- Leader World Id) and then press ENTER. Open the SSH session, enter the esxtop, press “ c” to display CPU resources and then SHIFT+V to display only virtual machine processes. Check that the VM is running:įorce stop the VM process with the command:Īlso, you can stop an unresponsive VMWare virtual machine using the ESXTOP utility. You can stop the frozen virtual machine using the PowerCLI (this is convenient, because when connecting to vCenter you don’t need to find the hostname on which the VM is running and enable SSH shell on it). Let’s try to softly stop the VM with the specified ID:Įsxcli vm process kill -type=soft -w=20598249 Otherwise, you can break your VM and you will have to restore it from backup. Make sure that there are no active snapshots, backups, and similar tasks for VM, and VM not in the “ Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed” state. Should be used last if nothing else helps.
Click on the ESXi host name, go to Configure -> Services -> SSH -> Start. You can enable this from the vSphere interface. Next, SSH access protocol must be enabled on your ESXi host. The ESXi host name on which VM is running is specified on the Summary tab in the Related Object -> Host section. To do this, find the VM in the vSphere Client interface. In such cases, you can manually kill the virtual machine process on the ESXi host from the ESXi Shell or PowerCLI command prompt.įirst you need to determine on which ESXi host the hung virtual machine is running.
The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state.Actions: Complete the concurrent operation and retry the power-off operation The virtual machine is in an invalid state The virtual machine might be performing concurrent operations.
If the virtual machine process on the ESXi server freezes, it stops responding on vCenter Reset/ Power Off commands, and returns one of the following errors to any action:
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In this post I’ll cover how to force kill an unresponsive (hung) virtual machine on VMWare ESXi host. Rebooting the entire ESXi host due to a single virtual machine is not entirely advisable (especially if you have only one ESXi host, or the remaining servers in the DRS cluster are not able to cope with the extra load of virtual machines from the server to be restarted). Sometimes I see that a certain virtual machine on the VMWare ESXi host freezes and it’s impossible to turn off or restart it from vSphere console by any means.
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