ESXi - 6.7 esxcli hardware

hardware

Device manager commands

bootdevice

• list

List the boot device order, if available, for this host.

• esxcli hardware bootdevice list

clock

• get

Disply the current hardware clock time.

• esxcli hardware clock get

• set

Set the hardware clock time. Any missing parameters will default to the current time.

• esxcli hardware clock set TIME

You must specify one of year, month, day, hour, minute or second

cpu

• list

List all of the CPUs on this host.

• esxcli hardware cpu list

cpuid

• get

Get subset of CPUID fields for a CPU (deprecated, use: esxcli hardware cpu cpuid raw list).

• esxcli hardware cpu cpuid get -c CPUID

raw

• list

Get all CPUID fields for a CPU.

• esxcli hardware cpu cpuid raw list -c CPUID

global

• get

Get properties that are global to all CPUs.

• esxcli hardware cpu global get

• set

Set properties that are global to all CPUs.

• esxcli hardware cpu global set -t HYPERTHREADING

ipmi

bmc

• get

Get IPMI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) properties.

• esxcli hardware ipmi bmc get

• set

Set IPMI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) properties. Changes take effect immediately.

• esxcli hardware ipmi bmc set

fru

• get

Get IPMI Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) device details.

• esxcli hardware ipmi fru get

• list

List IPMI Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory.

• esxcli hardware ipmi fru list

sdr

• get

Get IPMI Sensor Data Repository (SDR) properties.

• esxcli hardware ipmi sdr get

• list

List IPMI Sensor Data Repository.

• esxcli hardware ipmi sdr list

sel

• clear

Clear IPMI System Event Log.

• esxcli hardware ipmi sel clear

• get

Get IPMI System Event Log (SEL) properties.

• esxcli hardware ipmi sel get

• list

List IPMI System Event Log.

• esxcli hardware ipmi sel list

memory

• get

Get information about memory.

• esxcli hardware memory get

pci

• list

List all of the PCI devices on this host.

• esxcli hardware pci list

platform

• get

Get information about the platform

• esxcli hardware platform get

power

• get

Display the current power policy.

• esxcli hardware power policy get

• set

Set the power policy.

• esxcli hardware power policy set

choices

• list

List the power policies.

• esxcli hardware power policy choices list [CHOICE]

[CHOICE]
 -i|--id=<long>        Power policy numeric id
 -n|--name=<str>       Power policy name
 -s|--short-name=<str> Power policy short name

smartcard

certificate

• list

Certificates from inserted smart cards.

• esxcli hardware smartcard certificate list

info

• get

Information about the smart card subsystem.

• esxcli hardware smartcard info get

slot

• list

Information about connected smart card readers.

• esxcli hardware smartcard slot list

token

• list

Information about inserted smart cards.

• esxcli hardware smartcard token list

tpm

tag

• get

Get the TPM's tag (from index 0x40000010).

• esxcli hardware tpm tag get

• set

Set the TPM's tag (at index 0x40000010).

• esxcli hardware tpm tag set [DATA]

• clear

Clear the TPM's tag (at index 0x40000010).

• esxcli hardware tpm tag clear

[DATA]
 -d|--data=<str>       The tag data to store in the TPM (with hexadecimal byte encoding).
                       (required)