How configure crontab in ESXi to schedule a job every 5 min
For scheduling a command or script every 5 min in ESXi we need to edit following file
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
viĀ /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
#min hour day mon dow command 1 1 * * * /sbin/tmpwatch.py 1 * * * * /sbin/auto-backup.sh 0 * * * * /usr/lib/vmware/vmksummary/log-heartbeat.py */5 * * * * /sbin/hostd-probe ++group=host/vim/vmvisor/hostd-probe 00 1 * * * localcli storage core device purge */2 * * * * /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/vsanObserver.sh