Enable ESXi Shell vSphere 5.0 and switch Shell and GUI

cf2000

　　转自：http://www.davidhill.co/2012/02/enable-esxi-shell-vsphere-5-0/
　　Today I was playing around with building some virtual ESXi hosts and could not get one of them onto the network.  I tried everything I could through the console UI, but knew I had to enable the ESXi shell command line to do some further digging.  These are the steps that I carried out to do this:

• Connect to the ESXi host console
  
  
• Hit F2
  
• Enter the username and password
  
  
• Select Troubleshooting Options
  
  
• Select Enable ESXi Shell and hit return
  
  
• Press Escape to exit
  
• Hold Alt and press F1
  
• Login to the ESXi shell
  
  
• Once logged in you will see the command line
  
  
• 　　1、切换到命令行
  　　ALT+F1
  　　2、返回
  　　ALT+F2
  

　　If you are unsure of the commands to use the document Command-Line Management in vSphere 5.0 for Service Console Users is a really good starting point.