ESXi - 6.7 esxcli Command List

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The esxcli command set is based in a "namespace" model. It's kinda weird & convoluted.

The good news:  This command set seems to cover nearly everything the WebUI does.  Which means that you can do these things without hunting through a GUI. (You just get to hunt through this documentation instead... :| )

Usage

Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options]

Options:
  --formatter=FORMATTER
                        Override the formatter to use for a given command. Available formatter:
                        keyvalue, csv, xml
  --debug               Enable debug or internal use options
  --version             Display version information for the script
  -?, --help            Display usage information for the script

The NameSpaces

Device manager commands
Commands that operate on the esxcli system itself allowing users to get additional information.
VMware Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) commands.
VMware graphics commands.
VMKernel hardware properties and commands for configuring hardware.
VMware Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) commands.
Operations that pertain to the maintenance of networking on an ESX host. This includes a wide variety of commands to manipulate virtual networking components (vswitch, portgroup, etc) as well as local host IP, DNS and general host networking settings.
VMware NVMe driver esxcli extensions
Operations that pertain to remote direct memory access (RDMA) protocol stack on an ESX host.
VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring scheduling related functionality.
(Really... If you say so... Don't look like that to me...)
Manage the ESXi software image and packages
VMware storage commands.
VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring properties of the kernel core system and related system services.
A small number of operations that allow a user to Control Virtual Machine operations.
VMware vSAN commands