From the command line enter the following.

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r sshClient

In order to be able to Access and or mount VMware Filesystem you need to have vmfs-tools installed.

apt-get install vmfs-tools

Next list the content of the datastore.

ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/

To mount for example sdd1 you would probably do something like this.

mkdir /tmp/mount
vmfs-fuse /dev/sdd1 /tmp/mount/
ls -la /tmp/mount/

Remember to unmount when done.

umount /tmp/mount/

ssh into the hypervisor that is hosting the guest example we want to kill public_mailserver_1.local:

ssh -l root hypervisor_dns_name or ip

Get a list of the VM's currently running.

esxcli vm process list

we will get a list of VM's with attached info. We are interested in this machine:

 public_mailserver_1
 World ID: 19485020
 Process ID: 0
 VMX Cartel ID: 19485013
 UUID: 42 08 83 01 2f 1e f0 9c-19 2c 73 3e b4 8e 8b 90
 Display Name: staging-csi7-db01
 Config File: /vmfs/volumes/554b6ebc-96677e98-3229-a41f72cefa41/public_mailserver_1/public_mailserver_1.vmx
 

In order to kill the machine we issue the following command:

esxcli vm process kill –type=soft/hard/force –world-id=xxxxxx

To kill staging-csi7-db01.intnet the command parameters to use would be the following:

esxcli vm process kill --type=hard --world-id=19485020

To see if the machine was killed we could list all VM's again. If the machine is still present use the force paramater instead.

Launch Windows Powershell and load the VMware PowerCli Snapins

# Adds the base cmdlets
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Vds
# This line below is optional and adds some helper functions and appearance this can be modified for your needs.
. "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-VIToolkitEnvironment.ps1"