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I guess your vcenter is a virtual machine/virtual appliance on one of the Esxi host.<br />
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you can power on the vm by using ssh<br />
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you will see a vm id (on the left)<br />
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms<br />
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vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on (id)
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I guess your vcenter is a virtual machine/virtual appliance on one of the Esxi host.

you can power on the vm by using ssh

you will see a vm id (on the left)
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on (id)

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@Justin SSH needs to be enabled on the ESXi host! How do you do this if SSH is currently DISABLED!
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@Justin SSH needs to be enabled on the ESXi host! How do you do this if SSH is currently DISABLED!

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@Andrew Hancock, Thanks for indicate SSH is disabled by default and so do Shell as well.
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@Andrew Hancock, Thanks for indicate SSH is disabled by default and so do Shell as well.

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Excellent thank you all fixed
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We had a power outage and out back up generator failed. The issue is after our last upgrade we decided to put our Vcenter in the VMworld. Our ESXI servers came back up as did our San and we can connect to both but none of our vitural server to and including our vcenter came back up after the outage. Is there &nbsp;a work around that will allow us to start up the vcenter server so we can manage the rest of the environment?
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We had a power outage and out back up generator failed. The issue is after our last upgrade we decided to put our Vcenter in the VMworld. Our ESXI servers came back up as did our San and we can connect to both but none of our vitural server to and including our vcenter came back up after the outage. Is there  a work around that will allow us to start up the vcenter server so we can manage the rest of the environment?

How do I get access to my VM machines after a poweroutage

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.