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