OK, I seem to have exhausted all options now so I need a little help please. I need to restart a VM that has NIC issues. I have logged on to the web access portal using IE and tried to restart the virtual client and whilst it appears to think that it has restarted the client in actual fact it hasn't and if I go to the console view then all I see is the error message on screen (Duplicate IP address on network). So I thought i'd try and use VI client under a Windows XP VM and when I try and connect ( using the same logon details as in the web access method) it refuses to connect.
I thne decided I would try and connect via SSH, connection works fine and I cna connect to the shell using PuTTY. However whilst I can run many other shell commands anything that refers to VMware, such as esxcfg-firewall -q or vmware-cmd, fails with a command not found error. This would suggest that I have logged onto the machines shell but not vmware server.
I have 2 main questions 1. Is there some sort of bug that disallows shutting down or restarting VM's from the webaccess site and 2. Is there a secondary logon process via the shell to log onto the vmware server?
Any help appreciated
Dean