Change VMware View Reset Desktop option?

[NCFireRescu]

This function does a hard power off to the virtual machine and brings it back up. I'm wondering if there is an option somewhere within vsphere to change it to do a guest restart or soft reset rather than a hard?

Windows 7 is coming back trying to do a startup repair and then hangs on the final screen causing someone with console access to click finish and allow it to reboot so it's accessible to the user.

I saw a KB for workstation where you can change what vmware tools is doing but I've seen nothing for vsphere/esxi.

Thanks

 

[Dytralis]

No, there's no way to change it. By design it's meant to be a remote hard reset so that a help desk person (or the end-user themselves in some cases) could "reset" the virtual machine if something in the OS hangs.

 

[Deleted member 16178]

This function does a hard power off to the virtual machine and brings it back up. I'm wondering if there is an option somewhere within vsphere to change it to do a guest restart or soft reset rather than a hard?

Windows 7 is coming back trying to do a startup repair and then hangs on the final screen causing someone with console access to click finish and allow it to reboot so it's accessible to the user.

I saw a KB for workstation where you can change what vmware tools is doing but I've seen nothing for vsphere/esxi.

Thanks

Perhaps something is wrong with your image? Of the many, many virtual machines that I have hard reset (Windows Server and Desktop OS, Linux, etc.), none of them have ever experienced any corruption on the file system level. Sure, the VM complains and asks you if you would like to start in safe mode, but after 30 seconds you are off to the races with normal startup. Perhaps your boot configuration is incorrect?