Manage ESXi VM Processes with CLI

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Get World ID of VM

   esxcli vm process list | grep -A 2 <VM Name>

To kill unresponsive VM

   esxcli vm process kill --type=soft --wordld-id=<WorldID>

If this does not help:

   esxcli vm process kill --type=hard --wordld-id=<WorldID>

If all os so bad then as a last resort:

   esxcli vm process kill --type=force --wordld-id=<WorldID>

See also Power on a virtual machine from ESXi cli

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