Thursday, April 28, 2016

VM Won't Shutdown / Script to kill a hung vCenter task | VMware Communities

Script to kill a hung vCenter task | VMware Communities


If a VM can't be shut down or restarted because of "Another task is in progress" messages, here's a method to kill the VM:


SSH must be enabled on the host so you can SSH in. Alternatively, this can be done using PowerCLI, but I need to look up the commands.

esxcli vm process list

This displays a list of all the running VMs. You need to find the World ID of the VM that is stuck. Example:

ATL-FILE-01
   World ID: 5466595
   Process ID: 0
   VMX Cartel ID: 5466592
   UUID: 42 1b c8 64 36 2f 9d 94-d2 0e 97 9d f4 43 48 97
   Display Name: ATL-FILE-01
   Config File: /vmfs/volumes/52322814-b2c9b3ad-41d8-001018a06dea/ATL-FILE-01/ATL-FILE-01.vmx

To kill the VM:

esxcli vm process kill -t hard -w 5466595

If that doesn't work, use:

esxcli vm process kill -t force -w 5466595



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