Cannot cancel copy task in ESXi Web interface

I started copying a file from one datastore to another using the ESXi Web interface (version 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 6765664)) and has been going on for half a day. I want to gracefully stop the copying process but it does not seem to let me. Any ideas? I could ssh into the box to kill the process if that's the only way.

Thanks.

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Solution 1:

On Esxi only, not ESX: Restart the VM client daemon after SSH Login

/etc/init.d/hostd restart