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Browse All Articles > HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0)
In this step by step tutorial with screenshots, we will show you HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0). This is important if you need to enable SSH remote access for additional troubleshooting of the ESXi host.
In my previous
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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 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) using the
VMware Host Client so you can remotely connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) server remotely via SSH (PuTTY).
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.
1. Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) or vSphere vCenter Server using the vSphere Host Client (ESXi), or Web Client (vCenter Server)
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 7.0, when you have enabled
Secure Shell (SSH) and
console shell on a host. You may notice 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.
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