ESXi - 6.7 esxcli Command List

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

Device manager commands

• esxcli

Commands that operate on the esxcli system itself allowing users to get additional information.

• fcoe

VMware Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) commands.

• graphics

VMware graphics commands.

• hardware

VMKernel hardware properties and commands for configuring hardware.

• iscsi

VMware iSCSI commands.

• network

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.

• nvme

VMware NVMe driver esxcli extensions

• rdma

Operations that pertain to remote direct memory access (RDMA) protocol stack on an ESX host.

• sched

VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring scheduling related functionality.

• software

Manage the ESXi software image and packages

• storage

VMware storage commands.

• system

VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring properties of the kernel core system and related system services.

• vm

A small number of operations that allow a user to Control Virtual Machine operations.

• vsan

VMware vSAN commands