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1. Press ALT + F1 in your VMware ESXi console.

2. Type ‘unsupported’ (you won’t see what you type). Press Enter.

3. Enter your root password.

4. Edit file /etc/inetd.conf (vi /etc/inetd.conf).

5. Remove comment character ‘#‘ from line starts with ‘ssh‘. In my ESXi 3.5 U3, it’s line 32.

6. Save your changes.

7. Restart management service /sbin/services.sh

It’s possible you need to kill process inetd to finally enable SSH.

Posted by: AJ