Re: Is there an alternative to the "su -" command on ESXi 5.1 hosts?

I've just tried with my ESXi 5.1 test box and works fine with a local user, don't need su - or sudo.

~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

Vmid  Name                  File                      Guest OS          Version  Annotation

1      test1  [datastore1 (1)] test1/test1.vmx  windows7Server64Guest  vmx-09          

2      test2  [datastore1 (1)] test2/test2.vmx  windows7Server64Guest  vmx-09          

3      test3  [datastore1 (1)] test3/test3.vmx  windows7Server64Guest  vmx-09          

4      test4  [datastore1 (1)] test4/test4.vmx  windows7Server64Guest  vmx-09          

Have you assigned proper permission to the user? I've assigned Administrator to it for the testing purpose.