24 juin 2009
Killing a frozen VM on a vSphere ESX host
Occasionally virtual machines (VMs) get stuck in a zombie state and will not respond to a power-off command using the traditional vSphere client power controls. Rebooting a host will fix this condition — but rebooting is usually not an option. Fortunately, there are a few methods for forcing the VM to shut down without rebooting the host.
I previously documented these methods with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and wanted to make sure they all worked with vSphere. The methods below are listed in order of usage preference starting... [Lire la suite]
