VMware ESX / ESXi services restarting
Restart the ESXi host daemon
/etc/init.d/hostd restart
Restart vCenter Agent services
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart
To restart all management agents on the host
/sbin/services.sh
Start the management service
- For ESX, run the command:service mgmt-vmware startÂ
- For ESXi, run the command:/etc/init.d/hostd start
To reset the management network on a specific VMkernel interface, by default vmk0
esxcli network ip interface set -e false -i vmk0; esxcli network ip interface set -e true -i vmk0