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Right click on your orphaned template
Select “Remove from Inventory”
From the host you would like the template to reside on…
Select you host
Select the “Configuration” tab
Select “Storage” under the Hardware pane
Double click on the storage device in the right pane..this will bring up the “Datastore Browser”
Browse to your orphaned template’s location
Right click on the template file..it will have a “.vmtx” extention with the Type displayed as “Template VM”
Choose “Add to Inventory”

Go through and answer the wizard information to complete the “fix”

To allow the root user to login to a VMware ESX Server over the network using SSH, do the following

Go to the service console on the physical server & login

1.vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
2.Change the line that says PermitRootLogin from “no” to “yes”
3.service sshd restart