8.0

Create a Security Banner for the Direct Console
A security banner is a message that is displayed on the direct console Welcome screen.
Procedure
1 From the vSphere Client, connect to the vCenter Server.
2 Select the host in the inventory.
3 Click the Configure tab.
4 Under System, select Advanced System Settings.
5 Select Annotations.WelcomeMessage.
6 Click the Edit icon.
7 Enter a security message.
Results
The message is displayed on the direct console Welcome screen.
Redirecting the Direct Console to a Serial Port
To manage your ESXi host remotely from a serial console, you can redirect the direct console to a
serial port.
vSphere supports the VT100 terminal type and the PuTTy terminal emulator to view the direct
console over the serial port.
You can redirect the direct console to a serial port in several ways.
Redirect the Direct Console to a Serial Port by Setting the Boot Options Manually
When you redirect the direct console to a serial port by setting the boot options, the change does
not persist for subsequent boots.
Prerequisites
Verify that the serial port is not in use for serial logging and debugging.
Procedure
1 Start the host.
2 When the Loading VMware Hypervisor window appears, press Shift+O to edit boot options.
3 Deactivate the logPort and gdbPort on com1 and set tty2Port to com1 by entering the following
boot options:
"gdbPort=none logPort=none tty2Port=com1";
To use com2 instead, replace com1 with com2.
VMware ESXi Installation and Setup
VMware, Inc. 222