Enable and set ESXi shell timeout

[Atif_YNI]

I am looking for a script for set the value of UserVars.ESXiShellTimeout on all our hosts to 3600.

I am not great with scripts and have searched the internet. Now I am looking for help with it from the great minds here.

Atif

[LucD]

Try like this

Get-VMHost | 
Get-AdvancedSetting -Name "UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut" | 
Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "3600" -Confirm:$false

Watch out with the spelling of the name, it is case sensitive 

[Atif_YNI]

My King!!! thank you.

Would this do this for all ESXi hosts in a vCenter? If not, can we incorporate a spreadsheet with host names?

[LucD]

Yes, as you requested, this is for all ESXi nodes in your vCenter.

If you want to read a set of names from a CSV for example, you do something like this.
The CSV contains a column with the name EsxiName.

 

$names = Import-Csv -Path .\esxinames.csv -UseCulture | 
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty EsxiName

Get-VMHost -Name $names  | 
Get-AdvancedSetting -Name "Uservars.ESXiShelltimeout" | 
Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "900" -Confirm:$false

 

 

[Atif_YNI]

Completed 100 hosts in 3 minutes.

 

Thank you LucD!!!