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

2010 May 24
by Paul McSharry

To enter maintenance mode using the command line interface,

vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

To exit maintenance mode use

vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit

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