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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
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Examples
YoucanusevifstointeractwiththeremoteESXiorvCenterServersysteminavarietyofways.Specifyone
oftheconnectionoptionslistedin“ConnectionOptionsforvCLIHostManagementCommands”onpage 18
inplaceof<conn_options>.TheexamplesillustrateuseonaLinuxsystem,usedouble
quotesinsteadof
singlequoteswhenonaWindowssystem.
Listing Remote Information
ListalldatacentersonavCenterServersystemwith--listdc,using--servertopointtothevCenter
Serversystem.
vifs --server <my_vc>--username administrator --password <pswd> --listdc
ListalldatastoresonavCenterServersystemwith--listds.
vifs --server <my_vc> --username administrator --password <pswd> --dc kw-dev --listds
ListalldatastoresonanESXihostwith--listds.
vifs --server <my_ESXi> --username root --password <pswd> --listds
Thecommandliststhenamesofalldatastoresonthespecifiedserver.
Youcanuseeachnamethathasbeenreturnedtorefertodatastorepathsbyusingsquarebracketnotation,
asfollows:
'[my_datastore] dir/subdir/file'
Listthecontentofadirectoryinadatastore.
vifs --server <my_ESXi> --username root --password <pswd>--dir '[Storage1]'
vifs --server <my_ESXi> --username root --password <pswd> --dir '[Storage1] WindowsXP'
Thecommandliststhedirectorycontent.Inthisexample,thecommandliststhecontentsofavirtual
machinedirectory.
Content Listing
_________________
vmware-37.log
vmware-38.log
...
vmware.log
...
winxpPro-sp2.vmdk
winxpPro-sp2.vmx
winxpPro-sp2.vmxf
...
Listthecontentsofoneofthedatastores.
--move
-m <source>
<target>
Movesafileinadatastoretoanotherlocation
inadatastore.The<source>mustbearemote
sourcepath,the<target>aremotetarget
pathordirectory.
The--forceoptionreplacesexisting
destinationfiles.
Datastore
Temp
move src_file_path
dst_directory_path
[‐‐force]
move src_file_path
dst_file_path [‐‐force]
--put
-p <local_path>
<remote_path>
Uploadsafilefromthemachine
onwhichyou
runvCLItotheESXihost.Thisoperationuses
HTTP PUT.
Thiscommandcanreplaceexistinghostfiles
butcannotcreatenewfiles.
Datastore
Host
Temp
put src_local_file_path
dst_file_path
put src_local_file_path
dst_directory_path
--rm
-r <remote_path>
Deletesadatastorefile. Datastore
Temp
rm dst_file_path
--rmdir
-R <remote_dir>
Deletesadatastoredirectory.Thisoperation
failsifthedirectoryisnotempty.
Datastore
Temp
rmdir dst_directory_path
Command Description Target Syntax