Long tittle i know. sorry about that i wanted to share this with everybody cause it took me hours to get this working on IBM servers ive been reading a lot of blogs about this so i wanted to put my findings here you can use a management windows station or a vm on the esx host itself (windows 2003 or higher) first i did some preparations: enabled ssh on your ESXi host start CIM server on your ESXi host your ESXi host must be 5.x !! tools that i used are: WinSCP - here Putty - here Download the [...]