Text console on an ESX host or the vCenter appliance, used to set up networking initially, troubleshoot, and turn on SSH or the ESX Shell.
Also called Direct Console User Interface.
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Terms in this definition
- ESX
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- TURN
If a direct link can't be made, RDP Shortpath for Windows 365 relays UDP traffic via Microsoft servers on port 3478 instead.
- SSH
Protocol for remote sessions, chiefly on Linux, using TCP port 22.
- ESX Shell
The ESX host's local command shell, previously called the ESXi Shell. It is off by default, can be turned on from the DCUI, vSphere Client or VMware Host Client, and has its own availability and idle timeout settings.
Related terms
- management network
Carries traffic between an ESX host and vCenter, along with other management traffic. From the DCUI, Configure Management Network lets an administrator change its VLAN, addressing, name servers and NICs.