Couple of Tips using the ESXi command line
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms # esxcli vm process list # vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off 22 #!/bin/bash base_image="image name" new_image="new_image" datastore_path="/vmfs/volumes/datastore1" pushd ${datastore_path} mkdir ${new_image} && cp -rf "base-images/${base_image}/*" ${new_image}/ popd vim-cmd solo/registervm ${datastore_path}/${new_image}/*.vmx export no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.0,192.169.1.2" sgwilbur@gura:~$ ssh root@192.168.1.10 Password: The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs. VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools. Please see www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for details. The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user.
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