Some Handy Commands

Available Commands
- esxcli esxcli command list
  - 6.7 (WARNING! Deep Dive...)
Listing DataStores
- esxcli storage vmfs extent list
Listing VMs
- esxcli vm process list
  - Gives you a list of Running VMs & various useful bits of information about them.
  - Appears to list them in the order in which they where started.
Stopping / Starting VMs
- esxcli vm process kill –type=[soft,hard,force] –world-id=WorldID
  - soft: Best option, normal shutdown.
  - hard: Much like hitting a reset button on a physical machine.
  - force: Last resort, think power button...
  - WorldID: From running esxcli vm process list

ESXi - esxcli