Suppressing SSH warning on ESXi hosts

By default ESXi 5 hosts will display a notification when you turn on the SSH service. It is good practive to limit the amount of service that are open on your server, however i think there are a lot of very compelling reason to enable this SSH. The steps below will show you how to suppress the warning notification on ESXi hosts.

If you want to disable the warning and the exclamation mark do the following:

1. Select the ESXi host in the Inventory tab.
2. Click the Configuration tab.
3. Under Software, click Advanced Settings.
4. Click UserVars.
5. Change the value of UserVars.SuppressShellWarning to 1.
6. Click OK.