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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 4 Managing Storage
Figure 4-3. Target and LUN Representations
InFigure 4‐3,threeLUNsareavailableineachconfiguration.Ontheleft,thehostseesonetarget,butthat
targethasthreeLUNsthatcanbeused.EachLUNrepresentsanindividualstoragevolume.Ontheright,the
hostseesthreedifferenttargets,eachhavingoneLUN.
Examining LUNs with esxcli storage core
Useesxcli storage coretodisplayinformationaboutavailableLUNsonESXi5.0.
YoucanrunoneofthefollowingcommandstoexamineLUNs.Specifyoneoftheconnectionoptionslistedin
“ConnectionOptionsforvCLIHostManagementCommands”onpage 18inplaceof<conn_options>.
Listalllogicaldevicesknownonthissystemwithdetailedinformation.
esxcli <conn_options> storage core device list
Thecommandlistsdeviceinformationforalllogicaldevicesonthissystem.Theinformationincludesthe
name(UUID),devicetype,displayname,andmultipathingplugin.Specifythe--deviceoptiontoonly
listinformationaboutaspecificdevice.See“StorageDeviceNaming”onpage 39forbackground
information.
naa.5000c50037b3967e
Display Name: <name> (naa.5000c50037b3967e)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 953869
Device Type: Direct-Access
...
naa.500000e014e7a4e0
Display Name: <name> (naa.500000e014e7a4e0)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 70007
Device Type: Direct-Access
...
mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0
Display Name: Local <name> CD-ROM (mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0)
Has Settable Display Name: false
Size: 0
Device Type: CD-ROM
Listaspecificlogicaldevicewithitsdetailedinformation.
esxcli <conn_options> storage core device list -d mpx.vmhba32:C0:T1:L0
Listalldeviceuniqueidentifiers.
esxcli <conn_options> storage core device list
ThecommandliststheprimaryUIDforeachdevice(naa.xxxorotherprimaryname)andanyotherUIDs
foreachUID(VMLname).Youcanspecify--devicetoonlylistinformationforaspecificdevice.
PrintmappingsforVMFSvolumestothecorrespondingpartition,pathtothatpartition,VMFSUUID,
extentnumber,andvolumenames.
esxcli <conn_option> storage filesystem list
PrintHBAdeviceswithidentifyinginformation.
esxcli <conn_options> storage core adapter list
ThereturnvalueincludesadapterandUIDinformation.
PrintamappingbetweenHBAsandthedevicesitprovidespathsto.
storage array
target
LUN LUN LUN
storage array
target target target
LUN LUN LUN