All virtualization

home / Ask An Expert

Ask an Expert

How to manage maintenance mode by the command line/through a script/enter maintenance mode from the service console?

Answer:

Use vimsh.

vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter
vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit

Search in the Knowledge base

Ask an expert

Top questions:

	How do you Expand a VMFS Volume.
	How to convert an ESX 3.x VM image into a workstation image in 6.0.2?
	Is it possible to create dynamically growing VMDK files on ESX?
	Do VM’s shutdown gracefully when host shuts down on VMware Server for Windows?
	What file is the configuration file?

Popular articles

Networking in VMWare

Date: August 25, 2007 (5 Comments)

Author: Andrei Baronov

This series of articles is intended to provide you with information about the design and use of VMWare Networking.

Expanding the Virtual Disk Size in 4 Steps

Date: November 20, 2006 (21 Comments)

Author: Alexey Vasilyev

In this article I will show you an effective way to expand the virtual disk size in 4 steps. It's easy and doesn't require installing any additional OS or third-party tools. Running out of disk space is a common problem and a very annoying one as it always comes all of a sudden.

|

|

© Copyright 2008 VM Weekly