As I was working on solving one problem, I seem to have created another. I was changing my firewall rules on one host to any/any on vsphere and the host went unresponsive. I tried logging directly into the host web console- and I get no response. I know that I could ssh into the host and change firewall configs but…ssh is disabled by default.

The host is still ping able and I can ssh into the vms. I still have access to the kvm of the device. I restarted management services on the host- not fixed.

Esxi 7

I’m not sure how to back out of what seemed to be a misclick on configuring the firewall. If I can get web console access back- I can fix the rest of it!

Thanks for any suggestions pointing the way towards fixing this rookie mistake.