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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
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Chapter 3 Managing Files
Whenyouperformdatastoreresignaturing,considerthefollowingpoints:
Datastoreresignaturingisirreversible.
TheLUNcopythatcontainstheVMFSdatastorethatyouresignatureisnolongertreatedasaLUNcopy.
Aspanneddatastorecanberesignaturedonlyifallitsextentsareonline.
Theresignaturingprocessiscrashandfaulttolerant.Iftheprocessisinterrupted,youcanresumeitlater.
YoucanmountthenewVMFSdatastorewithoutariskofitsUUIDconflictingwithUUIDsofanyother
datastore,suchasanancestororchildinahierarchyofLUNsnapshots.
YoucanresignatureaVMFScopywithESXCLI(see“ResignaturingaVMFSCopywithESXCLI”onpage 31)
orwith
vicfg-volumesee“ResignaturingaVMFSCopywithvicfg‐volume”onpage 31.
Resignaturing a VMFS Copy with ESXCLI
Theesxcli storage vmfs snapshotcommandssupportresignaturingasnapshotvolume.Specifyoneof
theconnectionoptionslistedin“ConnectionOptionsforvCLIHostManagementCommands”onpage 18in
placeof<conn_options>.
To resignature a VMFS copy with ESXCLI
1Listunresolvedsnapshotsorreplicavolumes.
esxcli <conn_options> storage vmfs snapshot list
2 (Optional)Unmountthecopy.
esxcli <conn_options> storage filesystem unmount
3Runtheresignaturecommand.
esxcli <conn_options> storage vmfs snapshot resignature
--volume-label=<label>|--volume-uuid=<id>
Thecommandreturnstothepromptorsignalsanerror.
Afterresignaturing,youmighthavetodothefollowing:
Iftheresignatureddatastorecontainsvirtualmachines,updatereferencestotheoriginalVMFSdatastore
inthevirtualmachinefiles,including.vmx,.vmdk,.vmsd,and.vmsn.
Topoweronvirtualmachines,registerthemwiththevCenterServersystem.
Resignaturing a VMFS Copy with vicfg-volume
Youcanusevicfg-volumetomount,unmount,andresignatureVMFSvolumes.
To resignature a VMFS copy with vicfg-volume
1Makesurethecopyisnotmounted.
2Runvicfg-volumewiththeresignatureoption.
vicfg-volume <conn_options> --resignature <VMFS-UUID|label>
Thecommandreturnstothepromptorsignalsanerror.
Reclaiming Unused Storage Space
WhenVMFSdatastoresresideonthin‐provisionedLUNs,youcanuseESXCLIcommandstoreclaimthe
unusedlogicalblocksofathin‐provisionedLUNformattedwithVMFS.
Whenyourunthecommands,youmustspecifythevolumelabel(--volume-label)orthevolumeid
(--volume-uuid)butyoucannotspecifyboth.