Disabling ” SSH/ESXi shell for the host has been enabled” warnings

Disabling ” SSH/ESXi shell for the host has been enabled” warnings

When enabling SSH or ESXi shell on a ESXi host you will get a warning in the client summary tab.

This can be disabled by changing the UserVars.SuppressShellWarning to 1. To do this follow the steps below:

  1. Select the ESXi host
  2. Click the Configuration tab
  3. Under Software, choose Advanced Settings
  4. Navigate towards UserVars
  5. Change the value of UserVars.SuppressShellWarning to 1
  6. Save the change by clicking OK

The warning will be gone after this. You can enable it again by changing the value back to 0.

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Niels Engelen
Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
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