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  • 1.  Cannot shut down a Linux VM

    Posted Oct 17, 2011 03:51 PM

    My Linux VM (CentOS) was frozen so I shut it down in the Virtual Infrastructure client and it was processing it but it was stuck at 95% complete. How do I force it to shut down? My only other option is to restart my ESX server but that would affect all other VMs so I don't want to do that.

    thanks,

    Mark



  • 2.  RE: Cannot shut down a Linux VM

    Posted Oct 17, 2011 03:59 PM

    from the service console, I would try to restart the management agents first

    service mgmt-vmware restart

    If that doesn't work you can try and kill the PID

    http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004340



  • 3.  RE: Cannot shut down a Linux VM

    Posted Oct 17, 2011 04:02 PM

    Thanks. Will restarting the managment agents effect the other VMs on my ESX server?



  • 4.  RE: Cannot shut down a Linux VM

    Posted Oct 17, 2011 04:11 PM

    no, restarting the agents will not impact your guests.



  • 5.  RE: Cannot shut down a Linux VM

    Posted Oct 17, 2011 04:08 PM

    Restart the management servers in esx, will resolve the issue.