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June 23, 2009  3:34 PM

Killing a frozen VM on a vSphere ESX host



Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert, stuck, virtual machine, vSphere

Occasionally virtual machines (VMs) get stuck in a zombie state and will not respond to a power-off command using the traditional vSphere client power controls. Rebooting a host will fix this condition -- but rebooting is usually not an option. Fortunately, there are a few methods for forcing the...

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