Comments on: VMware: ESX Restart A Hung Virtual Machine

By: P Brindley

P Brindley — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:59:37 +0000

vmware provides tools to kill VMs as ps -aux tends to give WAY too much information

#vm-support -x
that will give you vmuid of all VMs that have files open then use
#vm-support -X vmuid of hung machine

MikeFM — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:51:18 +0000

For ESXi 4 it seems you need to do ‘ps | grep -i “Database” | grep -i “Worker”‘ instead where ‘Database’ is the server name.

Marcelo Soares — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:59:42 +0000

Great! Thanks for your help!

Bernie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:30:29 +0000

Thanks it works for me too!!!

kcollo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:39:01 +0000

Glad it worked for you! It has saved me a few times now.

Tra Tran — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:03:25 +0000

You are the man! It works!!!

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