Every once in a while you will experience problems that only can be fixed by visiting the ESX console, at least I do. When you finally have found the IP address or hostname and you’re using your favourite browser to load the MKS java applet, the information is scrolling fast and your keyboard isn’t mapped correctly. These two problems can be fixed easily, you have to fix the real problem yourself. :-)
First let’s start with the scrolling problem. When you issue a command like esxcfg-vswitch because you want to check out your vSwitch configuration, you only see the last part and can’t scroll back. You might want to redirect the outcome of your command into a file and use nano to walk through it.
esxcfg-vswitch -l >> network.txt
nano network.txt
This type of redirection pipes the output into the file network.txt. The difference between this and the single-'>' redirection is that the old contents (if any) of network.txt are not erased. Instead, the esxcfg -l output is appended to the file.
The second problem I have experienced a lot it an incorrect mapping of the keyboard. This problem can be easily fixed by loading a different keyboard translation table. The program loadkeys reads the file or files specified by filename.... Its main purpose is to load the kernel keymap for the console.
Loadkeys us will do the trick.
