My experience is, in my whitebox environment to reboot the VMware vCenter virtual appliance from time to time. I used to do this manually but I decided to create a scheduled task. Hey we are IT people right? 🙂
First login to the console with your password (I hope you changed the default root/vmware password combination :-))
go to the /etc directory and open the crontab file
Edit the crontab (just press the i key for insert, and go to the bottom line).
As you see there are 5 options before the command :
- minute (from 0 to 59)
- hour (from 0 to 23)
- day of the month (from 1 to 31)
- month (from 1 to 12)
- day of the week (from 0 to 6, 0=sunday)
If you use a * it means every, In my example every friday at 1 o’clock in the morning my appliance will reboot itself)