A couple of days ago I posted an article that has been produced hundreds of times about Enabling ssh on ESXi – pre 4.1. Today I thought I would post a quick how-to about enabling it via vCenter on ESXi 4.1. This drastically makes life easier, because you neither have to edit config files via the cLI nor do you need access to server consoles either remotely or physically. 1) Log in to vCenter 2) Select your host 3) Click the configuration tab 4) Select Security Profile under Software – You will be shown the services that are available for configuration 5) Click Properties 6) Highlight Remote Tech Support (SSH) and click options 7) Choose the Startup policy and Service Command that you require. 8 ) Click Ok 9) Click Ok 10) Open up a SSH session to your host and login Once enabled you will notice that the host […]
