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Matt
Asked: 2019-07-06 06:10:41 +0800 CST

Why does my root login only have basic commands available when ssh'd to ESXi host?

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We are having an issue with our 6.5 ESXi host. As part of our troubleshooting we have enabled ESXi Shell and SSH. Between VMWare Docs and community posts I keep seeing that we are supposed to be able to access the ESXi Shell over SSH.

I am signed in via SSH to the problem host and I am only getting access to basic commands. 

login as: root
[email protected]'s password:
/admin1-> help
[Usage]
    show   [<options>] [<target>] [<properties>]
           [<propertyname>== <propertyvalue>]
    set    [<options>] [<target>] <propertyname>=<value>
    cd     [<options>] [<target>]
    create [<options>] <target> [<property of new target>=<value>]
           [<property of new target>=<value>]
    delete [<options>] <target>
    exit   [<options>]
    reset  [<options>] [<target>]
    start  [<options>] [<target>]
    stop   [<options>] [<target>]
    version [<options>]
    help   [<options>] [<help topics>]
    load -source <URI> [<options>] [<target>]
    dump -destination <URI> [<options>] [<target>]
/admin1-> ps
cmdstat
        status       : 2
        status_tag   : COMMAND PROCESSING FAILED
        error        : 253
        error_tag    : COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZED

I am connected to the ESXi shell on session 0 on the host but a process is hung and I need to stop it (I ran esxcli with no parameters and its just letting me keep typing and I can't exit it). However I don't seem to be able to run commands to kill the processes I want.

I am not in there enough to recognize the place I am stuck in. Not the focus of the question but the larger issue we are trying to troubleshoot is the host in unresponsive in vCenter and VMs are up but in a disconnected state

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