title: Will processes running on Vmware ESXI host shell via SSH continue if SSH session is disconnected?
body: <p>I've got a VMware ESXi server that I connected to via SSH to run a process.  (I was running "vmkfstools --punchzero myVirtualDrive.vmdk" to reclaim space on a virtual disk).  The SSH client connection was disconnected when the process was only 70% complete (with several hours of estimated time remaining).</p>
  
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  <li>Was the process terminated when the SSH client dropped its connection to the ESXi host? </li>
  <li>Is there any way to tell if the process is still running?<br>
  I did a quick ps|grep to find it, but didn't see anything that looked like vmkfstools.</li>
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  <p>On most standard linux machines, I use "screen" to avoid SSH client disconnection issues, but since the ESXi shell is purposely a very stripped down environment, I just ran the command straight away.</p>
  
  <p>Thoughts?</p>