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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples
- Contents
- About This Book
- vSphere CLI Command Overviews
- Introduction
- List of Available Host Management Commands
- Targets and Protocols for vCLI Host Management Commands
- Supported Platforms for vCLI Commands
- Commands with an esxcfg Prefix
- ESXCLI Overview
- Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands
- Connection Options for DCLI Commands
- vCLI Host Management Commands and Lockdown Mode
- Managing Hosts
- Managing Files
- Managing Storage
- Introduction to Storage
- Examining LUNs
- Detaching Devices and Removing a LUN
- Working with Permanent Device Loss
- Managing Paths
- Managing Path Policies
- Scheduling Queues for Virtual Machine I/O
- Managing NFS/NAS Datastores
- Monitoring and Managing SAN Storage
- Monitoring and Managing Virtual SAN Storage
- Monitoring vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Monitoring and Managing Virtual Volumes
- Migrating Virtual Machines with svmotion
- Configuring FCoE Adapters
- Scanning Storage Adapters
- Retrieving SMART Information
- Managing iSCSI Storage
- iSCSI Storage Overview
- Protecting an iSCSI SAN
- Command Syntax for esxcli iscsi and vicfg-iscsi
- iSCSI Storage Setup with ESXCLI
- iSCSI Storage Setup with vicfg-iscsi
- Listing and Setting iSCSI Options
- Listing and Setting iSCSI Parameters
- Enabling iSCSI Authentication
- Setting Up Ports for iSCSI Multipathing
- Managing iSCSI Sessions
- Managing Third-Party Storage Arrays
- Managing NMP with esxcli storage nmp
- Path Claiming with esxcli storage core claiming
- Managing Claim Rules
- Managing Users
- Managing Virtual Machines
- vmware-cmd Overview
- Listing and Registering Virtual Machines
- Retrieving Virtual Machine Attributes
- Managing Virtual Machine Snapshots with vmware-cmd
- Powering Virtual Machines On and Off
- Connecting and Disconnecting Virtual Devices
- Working with the AnswerVM API
- Forcibly Stopping Virtual Machines with EXCLI
- Managing vSphere Networking
- Introduction to vSphere Networking
- Retrieving Basic Networking Information
- Network Troubleshooting
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Standard Switches
- Setting Up Virtual Switches and Associating a Switch with a Network Interface
- Retrieving Information About Virtual Switches
- Adding and Deleting Virtual Switches
- Checking, Adding, and Removing Port Groups
- Managing Uplinks and Port Groups
- Setting the Port Group VLAN ID
- Managing Uplink Adapters
- Adding and Modifying VMkernel Network Interfaces
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Distributed Switch
- Managing Standard Networking Services in the vSphere Environment
- Setting the DNS Configuration
- Adding and Starting an NTP Server
- Managing the IP Gateway
- Setting Up IPsec
- Managing the ESXi Firewall
- Monitoring VXLAN
- Monitoring ESXi Hosts
- Index
VMware, Inc. 149
Index
names 45, 46
overview 40
M
MAC address, VMkernel NIC 125
MagicPacket 123
maintenance mode 22, 23
Managing 44, 59, 122
managing 140
managing local core dumps 140
managing NMP 87
managing paths 44
managing physical network interfaces 122
migrating virtual machines,svmotion 55
mount datastores 30
MTU 119, 120
multipathing 44, 45
mutual authentication 82, 83
mutual CHAP 69, 71, 74, 76, 82, 83
N
naa.xxx device name 45, 46
NAS datastores, datastores, NAS 50
NAS file systems 51
NetQueue VMkernel modules 25
network adapters
duplex value 122
managing 122
speed 122
network interfaces 117, 122
networking
vDS 128
vSS 117
NFS datastores 50
NFS, capabilities 51
NMP 44, 87
NTP server 131
O
offload iSCSI 59
orphaned virtual machine 106
P
parameters
default inheritance (iSCSI) 81
setting (iSCSI) 80
partitions, diagnostic 140
path change conditions for round robin 91
path claiming 93
path operations 88
path policies 47, 89, 90
path state, changing 46
paths
active 47
changing state 46
disabling 47
listing 46
listing with ESXCLI 45
managing 44
preferred 49, 50, 89
performance monitoring 139
physical network interfaces 122
platform support 14
Pluggable Storage Architecture 44
port binding 70, 75, 84
port groups 114, 121, 122
adding 120
and uplink adapter 121
default 118
removing 120
ports, iSCSI multipathing 83
power operations 110
powerop_mode 110
preferred path 49, 50, 89
PSA 44
acronym 87
managing claim rules 95
PSP
acronym 87
information 89
operations 88
R
raw devices 39
rebooting hosts 21
register virtual machines 107
removing snapshots 109
rescanning adapters 58
rescanning storage 39, 58
rescanning storage adapters 58
resignature VMFS copy 31
restoring configuration data 24
resxtop 13, 139
reverting snapshots 109
RFCs (vicfg-ipsec) 132
roles 101
round robin
operations 50, 90
path change conditions 91
retrieve settings 90
route entry setup 131
rule IDs 96
rules 92
claim rules 95
SATP rules 92