ESXCLI Commands

esxcli vm Commands

Command	Description	Options Help
vm process kill	Used to forcibly kill Virtual Machines that are stuck and not responding to normal stop operations.	--type | -t The type of kill operation to attempt. There are three types of VM kills that can be attempted: [soft, hard, force]. Users should always attempt 'soft' kills first, which will give the VMX process a chance to shutdown cleanly (like kill or kill -SIGTERM). If that does not work move to 'hard' kills which will shutdown the process immediately (like kill -9 or kill -SIGKILL). 'force' should be used as a last resort attempt to kill the VM. If all three fail then a reboot is required. (required) --world-id | -w The World ID of the Virtual Machine to kill. This can be obtained from the 'vm process list' command (required) --help Show the help message.
vm process list	List the virtual machines on this system. This command currently will only list running VMs on the system.	--help Show the help message.