Cannot cancel copy task in ESXi Web interface

Question

I started copying a file from one datastore to another using the ESXi Web interface (version 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 6765664)) and has been going on for half a day. I want to gracefully stop the copying process but it does not seem to let me. Any ideas? I could ssh into the box to kill the process if that's the only way.

Thanks.

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score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '18 at 07:15

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On Esxi only, not ESX: Restart the VM client daemon after SSH Login

/etc/init.d/hostd restart

answered Mar 22 '18 at 07:15

Ivan Lee

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Works on ESXi 6.7 – Ed of the Mountain Aug 27 '18 at 15:13
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Works on 6.5.0 U2 – Yvon Sep 29 '18 at 18:22
Interesting that canceling a benign task like that involves killing the service. – namezero Jan 14 '20 at 14:08
Works on ESXi 6.7 U2 – Apr 11 '20 at 10:55
Works on ESXi 7.0.0 (Build 15843807) too – psychowood Jan 17 '21 at 13:46

Cannot cancel copy task in ESXi Web interface

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