Monday, December 10, 2012

How to make ESXi crash

While looking at a VMware KBTV video, I saw a cool trick to make your ESXi host crash (which can be good for testing purposes):

From SSH, type: vsish -e set /reliability/crashMe/Panic 1

Apparently, I'm telling nothing new: Seaching for that string on Google, I found the links below for more info:

http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/01/09/forcing-a-kernel-dump-on-a-vsphere-host-the-purple-screen-of-death/

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1388-Lets-create-some-Kernel-Panic-using-vsish.html