| Documentation |
Description |
| esxcli device |
Lists descriptions of device commands. |
| esxcli elxnet |
Lists descriptions for commands that manage Emulex elxnet drivers. |
| esxcli esxcli |
Lists descriptions of esxcli commands. |
| esxcli fcoe |
FCOE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) comands |
| esxcli graphics |
Graphics commands |
| esxcli hardware |
Hardware namespace. Used primarily for extracting information about the current system setup. |
| esxcli iscsi |
iSCSI namespace for minitoring and managing hardware and software iSCSI. |
| esxcli network |
Network namespace for managing virtual networking including virtual switches and VMkernel network interfaces. |
| esxcli rmda |
Commands for monitoring RMDA devices. |
| esxcli sched |
Manage the shared system-wide swap space. |
| esxcli software |
Software namespace. Includes commands for managing and installing image profiles and VIBs. |
| esxcli storage |
Includes core storage commands and other storage management commands. |
| esxcli system |
System monitoring and management command. |
| esxcli vm |
Namespace for listing virtual machines and shutting them down forcefully. |
| esxcli vsan |
Namespace for VSAN management commands. See the vSphere Storage publication for details. |
| svmotion |
Moves a virtual machine's configuration file and optionally its disks while the virtual machine is running. Must run against a vCenter Server system. |
| vicfg-advcfg |
Performs advanced configuration including enabling and disabling CIM providers. Use this command as instructed by VMware. |
| vicfg-authconfig |
Manages Active Directory authentication. |
| vicfg-cfgbackup |
Backs up the configuration data of an ESXi system and restores previously saved configuration data. |
| vicfg-dns.pl |
Specifies an ESX/ESXi host's DNS (Domain Name Server) configuration. |
| vicfg-dumppart |
Manages diagnostic partitions. |
| vicfg-hostops |
Allows you to start, stop, and examine ESX/ESXi hosts and to instruct them to enter maintenance mode and exit from maintenance mode. |
| vicfg-ipsec |
Supports setup of IPSec. |
| vicfg-iscsi |
Manages iSCSI storage. |
| vicfg-module |
Enables VMkernel options. Use this command with the options listed, or as instructed by VMware. |
| vicfg-mpath |
Displays information about storage array paths and allows you to change a path's state. |
| vicfg-nas |
Manages NAS file systems. |
| vicfg-nics |
Manages the ESX/ESXi host's NICs (uplink adapters). |
| vicfg-ntp |
Specifies the NTP (Network Time Protocol) server. |
| vicfg-rescan |
Rescans the storage configuration. |
| vicfg-route |
Lists or changes the ESX/ESXi host's route entry (IP gateway). |
| vicfg-scsidevs |
Finds available LUNs. |
| vicfg-snmp |
Manages the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent. |
| vicfg-syslog |
Specifies the syslog server and the port to connect to that server for ESXi hosts. |
| vicfg-user |
Creates, modifies, deletes, and lists local direct access users and groups of users. |
| vicfg-vmknic |
Adds, deletes, and modifies virtual network adapters (VMkernel NICs). |
| vicfg-volume |
Supports resignaturing a VMFS snapshot volume and mounting and unmounting the snapshot volume. |
| vicfg-vswitch |
Adds or removes virtual switches or vNetwork Distributed Switches, or modifies switch settings. |
| vifs.pl |
Performs file system operations such as retrieving and uploading files on the remote server. |
| vihostupdate |
Manages updates of ESX/ESXi hosts. Use vihostupdate35 for ESXi 3.5 hosts. |
| vmkfstools |
Creates and manipulates virtual disks, file systems, logical volumes, and physical storage devices on ESX/ESXi hosts. |
| vmware-cmd |
Performs virtual machine operations remotely. This includes, for example, creating a snapshot, powering the virtual machine on or off, and getting information about the virtual machine. |
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