VM Power operations do not function in separate window or tab

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• No activity occurs when power operations attempted from the separate window or tab.
• The power commands (power off,suspend,reset) do not respond when opening a console in a new window or tab.

Environment

VMware vSphere 7.0.x
VMware vSphere 6.7.x

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware vSphere 6.7 and later.
Currently, there is no resolution.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, operate all power operations from the original window.

See illustrations below:

Option 1: On the ESXi web application, virtual machine power operations are shown as icons in the row above the list of virtual machines. Click one of the icons ("Power on, "Power off", "Shutdown", "Suspend") to affect the power state.



Option 2: ESXi Host UI > "Open console in new window" > click Power to view the corresponding operations.



Option 3: On web-based remote console plugin to a virtual machine - click Power to view the available operations.