VMware: Toggling the vCenter Server Appliance 6.x default shell

This article provides vSphere Administrators steps to toggle between default shells available on the vCentrer Server Appliance (vCSA). 

Currently, the vCSA is bundled with these supported shells:

• Appliance Shell
• BASH Shell

Today I tried to upgrade vCenter Appliance 6.0.0 to Update 1, after runnning command “software-packages stage –iso –acceptEulas” I receiver message:

-bash: software-packages: command not found

Switching the vCenter Server Appliance 6.x to Appliance Shell

1. Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance via SSH.
2. Run this command to change from using the BASH Shell to the Appliance Shell:

   chsh -s /bin/appliancesh root

3. Log out from the BASH Shell and re-log in for this to take affect.

Result

After restart the SSH sessoin I was able to run commands in bash shell

More information: VMware

About Author

Sander

Sander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Lead (Sr.) Consultant / Technical Project Lead at Unica ICT Solutions. Sander has 15+ years experience in IT, primary focus: virtualization, security and modern worksplace.

See author's posts