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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
Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces
150 VMware, Inc.
S
SATP
configuration parameters 93
deleting rules 92
retrieve settings 91
rules, adding 91
securing iSCSI ports 62
security associations (IPsec) 133
security policies (IPsec) 134
sessions, iSCSI 85
Simple Network Management Protocol 143
snapshots 108, 109
SNMP
communities 144
management 143
polling 145
traps 144
soft power operations 110
software iSCSI setup tasks 68, 70, 73, 75
spaces in directory names 33
special characters
in directories 33
vicfg-iscsi 79, 81
standard networking services 128
starting NTP server 131
state of path, changing 46
static discovery 60
stopping virtual machines 111
storage
creating directories with vifs 33
overview 37
path claiming 93
rescanning 39, 58
virtual machines 38
storage array target 40
storage device naming 39
supported platforms 14
svmotion 55
interactive Mode 56
license for storage vMotion 56
limitations 56
noninteractive mode 56
requirements 56
special characters 56
switch attributes 119, 120
syslog server specification 142
T
TCP Segmentation Offload 125
TCP/IP 72, 76, 114
transport mode 133
TSO 125
tunnel mode 133
U
unregister virtual machines 107
uplink adapters 114, 122
and port groups 121
setup 124
useANO (round robin) 50
user input 111
users
creating 103
in vSphere environment 101
modifying 103
V
VDS 113
vicfg-authconfig 25
vicfg-cfgbackup 23, 24
vicfg-dumppart 140, 141
vicfg-hostops 21, 22
vicfg-ipsec 133, 134
vicfg-iscsi
command syntax 63
default inheritance for authentication 63
default inheritance for parameters 80, 81
iscsi parameter options 81
vicfg-module 24
vicfg-mpath 46
vicfg-nas 50, 52
vicfg-nics 124
vicfg-ntp 131
vicfg-rescan 58, 75
vicfg-scsidevs
3.5 support 42
list options 42
vicfg-snmp 143
vicfg-syslog 142
vicfg-user 101, 102, 104
vicfg-vmknic 125
vicfg-volume 29
vicfg-vswitch 117, 120
vifs 28, 32
virtual devices 110
virtual machine configuration file path 57
virtual machines
attributes 107
file management 27
listing 106, 107
managing 107
migration with svmotion 55
network settings 115
orphaned 106
path 106