There are lot of times when troubleshooting a certain issue in VMware environment, you need to enable SSH service on some hosts. Enabling the SSH service is a bit a time-consuming process when it comes to several hosts at a time.
Thanks to PowerCLI which makes VMware admins’ life a lot easier. The following is a simple script starting or stopping SSH service of ESXi hosts.
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$All_Hosts = Get-VMHost $SSH_Service = get-VMHostService -VMHost $All_Hosts | where {$_.Label -eq "SSH"} Start-VMHostService -HostService $SSH_Service Stop-VMHostService -HostService $SSH_Service |
The reason I am using a variable to identify SSH Service is that, the cmdlet does not accept any parameters with the name of the service or its label. Now lets see each command in practice.
$All_Hosts = Get-VMHost, it returns all hosts within vCenter, in this case, I want all hosts’ SSH service to be running.
$SSH_Service = get-VMHostService -VMHost $All_Hosts | where {$_.Label -eq “SSH”}, this returns all hosts’ SSH service. As you see there are several hosts here which their SSH service is currently stopped.
Start-VMHostService -HostService $SSH_Service, it starts all the hosts SSH service. if you re-check the status, they all have changed to True.