Enabling services and setting security profiles
ESXi hosts enable a few services by default, but there are some additional services that are installed but blocked. In some cases, you might want to enable SSH on the host. However, since VMware does not recommend enabling SSH and will display a warning. You can set an advanced setting to disable this warning.
Getting ready
To begin with, you should open a PowerCLI prompt and connect to an ESXi or vCenter host. You will also want to store a VMHost
object in a variable named $esxihost
.
How to do it…
- The first step is to get the list of available services from a VMware host. To do this, you use the
Get-VMHostService
cmdlet and pass theVMHost
object into the cmdlet as follows:$esxihost | Get-VMHostService ...
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