ESX 3.5 – Keyboard Issues displaying wrong characters
I ran into an issue getting an ESX 3.5 server to join a Virtual Center 2.5 server today..
For some reason I couldn’t get it to join my VC server and when I tried to I would get the error bad password or user name. Connecting the VI client straight to the server failed, trying to use the web interface failed, but I could remote into the server via an IP KVM and log on without issue.
What I found was my keyboard map on this individual server was set to UK and not US.
Here is how I resolved this issue.
Logged in to the host as root
cd /etc/sysconfig
vi keyboard
Press esc twice
Press insert to edit
Changed KEYTABLE=”uk″ to KEYTABLE=”us″
Press esc twice
Enter :qw > to save the file and exit
Reboot the ESX server
And now it works like a champ..
