As with every version there is a new set of tools to perform administration in your vSphere ESXi hypervisor. The new tool is called esxcli. Here are some steps to try to get shutdown a VM from the command line
Steps to stop a VM from the CLI in vSphere 5
- Gather information on the processes : Ex: esxcli vm process list
- Select process World number from the list generated in step 1
- Send the kill command to stop VM. Ex: esxcli vm process kill -t soft -w #####