In this step by step tutorial with screenshots, we will show you HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5). This is important if you need to enable SSH remote access for additional troubleshooting of the ESXi host.
In my previous
Experts Exchange Articles, most have featured Basic and Intermediate VMware and Virtualisation Topics.
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In this series of basic VMware articles for the Novice, I'll be showing you the basic VMware skills required to install, configure and deploy virtual machines using VMware's
FREE VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi).
In this article we will show you HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) using the
VMware Host Client so you can remotely connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) server remotely via SSH (PuTTY). SSH Remote Access can still be enabled using the legacy deprecated vSphere Client but is unsupported.
If you want to use the vSphere Client to enabled SSH Remote Access to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5), please follow the steps in this article which are still valid for 6.5. Just remember it's not supported.
HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)
1. Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) or vSphere vCenter Server using the vSphere Host Client (ESXi), or Web Client (vCenter Server)
Please refer to my EE article here
HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) using the vSphere (HTML5 Web) Host Client 6.5
Once connected to the "default hypervisor home page", click the Host icon, and select Actions.
Click the Actions gear icon.
Click the Services icon, and select
Enable Secure Shell (SSH) and
Enable console shell.
Confirm using
PuTTY, you can connect to the server successfully.
In vSphere 6.5, when you have enabled
Secure Shell (SSH) and
console shell on a host from the VMware Host Client, you may notice that that a
Configuration Issues warning yellow box appears on the Summary page of the host ESXi server.
This
Configuration Issues warning yellow box only appears when
Secure Shell (SSH) and
console shell has been enabled.
Please refer to my EE Article on
HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alert displayed in Summary status for ESXi 6.5 after enabling SSH or ESXi Shell
Congratulations, you have successfully Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5).
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These articles are also applicable to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.
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