Some of you may not be aware of this handy utility on the VMware ESX 3.x service console called ‘vimsh
It provides a metashell that gives you a lot of control over your ESX server and in terms of managment is a lot more efficient as you don’t have to shut things down…

Useful commands that it provides are shown in the next screenshot….

This util is completely undocumented and unsupported so use at your own peril!
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