Re: Making new firewalls permanent in 5.1?

You will need to change the oem.tgz config file.... where all the configurations are stored. I don't know if this works with 5.x,you can google a little bit to check solutions like this. I remember this blog post regard storing the ssh config file on ESXi 4.0:

http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/vmware/esxi/enabling-ssh-with-public-key-authentication-on-vmware-esxi-4