Place an ESX Host into maintenance mode using the command line.

1. 
   Oscar permalink

   September 6, 2010

   Thanks for the tip.

   I alternatively use vmware-vim-cmd instead of vimsh, so those commands would look like:

   vmware-vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

   and

   vmware-vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit

   And to check if a host is already in maintenance mode:

   vmware-vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary|grep -i maintenance

   output should be something like:

   inMaintenanceMode = false,

   Cheers

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