Enable ESXi Side-Channel-Aware Scheduler Version 2 (SCAv2) using ESXCLI
- SSH to an ESXi host or open a console where the remote ESXCLI is installed
- Check the current runtime values by running:
esxcli system settings kernellist -o hyperthreadingMitigation and esxcli system settings kernel list -o hyperthreadingMitigationIntraVM
- To enable the ESXi Side-Channel-Aware Scheduler Version 1 run these commands:
esxcli system settings kernel set -s hyperthreadingMitigation -v TRUEesxcli system settings kernel set -s hyperthreadingMitigationIntraVM -v FALSE
- Reboot the ESXi host for the configuration change to go into effect:
Default Method:- Get List of running VMs:
esxcli vm process list - Kill VMs:
esxcli vm process kill -type=[soft|hard|force] -world-id=[worldid]
- Get List of running VMs:
- Alternative method:
- List all vms:
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms vim-cmd vmsvc/power.shutdown [vmid]reboot -d 300 -f
- List all vms:
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