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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
Toavoidproblemswithdirectorynamesthatusespecialcharactersorspaces,enclosethepathinquotesfor
bothoperatingsystems.
Whenyourunvifs,youcanspecifytheoperationnameandargumentandoneofthestandardconnection
options.Usealiases,symboliclinks,orwrapperscriptstosimplifytheinvocation
syntax.
Options
vifscommand‐specificoptionsallowyoutoretrieveanduploadfilesfromtheremotehostandperforma
numberofotheroperations.Allvifsoptionsworkondatastorefilesordirectories.Someoptionsalsowork
onhostfilesandfilesinthetempdirectory.Youmustalsospecifyconnectionoptions.
Temp The/tmpdirectoryandfilesinthatdirectory.
Specifytemplocationsbyusingthe
/tmp/dir/subdirsyntax.
Notsupported.
Datastores
Datastorefilesanddirectories.Youhavetwochoicesforspecifyingadatastore:
Datastore prefixstyle:'[ds_name] relative_path'.Forexample:
'[myStorage1] testvms/VM1/VM1.vmx'(Linux) or "[myStorage1]
testvms/VM1/VM1.vmx" (Windows)
URLstyle:/folder/dir/subdir/file?dsName=<name>.Forexample:
'/folder/testvms/VM1/VM1.vmx?dsName=myStorage1' (Linux)
"/folder/testvms/VM1/VM1.vmx?dsName=myStorage1" (Windows)
Thetwoexamplepathsrefertoavirtualmachineconfigurationfileforthevirtualmachine
VM1inthetestvms/VM1directoryofthemyStorage1datastore.
IMPORTANTTheconceptsofworkingdirectoryandlastdirectoryorfileoperatedonarenotsupportedwith
vifs.
Command Description Target Syntax
--copy
-c <source>
<target>
Copiesafileinadatastoretoanotherlocation
inadatastore.The<source>mustbearemote
sourcepath,the<target>aremotetarget
pathordirectory.
The--forceoptionreplacesexisting
destinationfiles.
Datastore
Temp
copy src_file_path
dst_directory_path
[‐‐force]
copy src_file_path
dst_file_path [‐‐force]
--dir
-D <remote_dir>
Liststhecontentsofadatastore
directory. Datastore
Temp
dir
datastore_directory_path
--force
-F
Overwritesthedestinationfile.Usedwith
--moveand--copy.
Datastore
Temp
copy src_file_path
dst_file_path [‐‐force]
--get
-g <remote_path>
<local_path>
DownloadsafilefromtheESXihosttothe
machineonwhichyourunvCLI.This
operationusesHTTP GET.
Datastore
Host
get src_dstore_file_path
dst_local_file_path
get src_d store_dir_path
dst_local_file_path
--listdc
-C
Liststhedatacenterpathsavailableon
an
ESXisystem.
Datastore
Host
--listds
-S
ListsthedatastorenamesontheESXisystem.
Whenmultipledatacentersareavailable,use
the--dc (-Z)argumenttospecifythename
ofthedatacenterfromwhichyouwanttolist
thedatastore.
Datastore
Host
vifs --listds
--mkdir
-M <remote_dir>
Createsadirectoryinadatastore.This
operation
failsiftheparentdirectoryof
dst_datastore_file_pathdoesnotexist.
Datastore
Temp
mkdir dst_directory_path
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