6.5
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 Commands Available on Different ESXi Hosts
- Trust Relationship Requirement for ESXCLI Commands
- Using ESXCLI Output
- 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
- Detach a Device and Remove a LUN
- Reattach a Device
- Working with Permanent Device Loss
- Managing Paths
- Managing Path Policies
- Scheduling Queues for Virtual Machine I/O
- Managing NFS/NAS Datastores
- Monitor and Manage FibreChannel 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
- Set Up Ports for iSCSI Multipathing
- Managing iSCSI Sessions
- Managing Third-Party Storage Arrays
- Managing Users
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Managing vSphere Networking
- Introduction to vSphere Networking
- Retrieving Basic Networking Information
- Troubleshoot a Networking Setup
- 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
- Managing VMkernel Network Interfaces with ESXCLI
- Add and Configure an IPv4 VMkernel Network Interface with ESXCLI
- Add and Configure an IPv6 VMkernel Network Interface with ESXCLI
- Managing VMkernel Network Interfaces with vicfg-vmknic
- Add and Configure an IPv4 VMkernel Network Interface with vicfg-vmknic
- Add and Configure an IPv6 VMkernel Network Interface with vicfg-vmknic
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Distributed Switch
- Managing Standard Networking Services in the vSphere Environment
- Setting the DNS Configuration
- Manage an NTP Server
- Manage the IP Gateway
- Setting Up IPsec
- Manage the ESXi Firewall
- Monitor VXLAN
- Monitoring ESXi Hosts
- Index
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Disable VLAN for port group g42.
vicfg-vswitch <conn_options> --vlan 0 --pg g42 vSwitch2
Run vicfg-vswitch -l to retrieve information about VLAN IDs currently associated with the virtual
switches in the network.
Managing Uplink Adapters
You can manage uplink adapters, which represent the physical NICs that connect the ESXi host to the
network by using the esxcli network nic or the vicfg-nics command. You can also use esxcli network
vswitch and esxcfg-vswitch to link and unlink the uplink.
You can use vicfg-nics to list information and to specify speed and duplex seing for the uplink.
You can use esxcli network nic to list all uplinks, to list information, to set aributes, and to bring a
specied uplink down or up.
Manage Uplink Adapters with ESXCLI
you can use to manage uplink adapters.
The following example workow lists all uplink adapters, lists properties for one uplink adapter, changes
the uplink's speed and duplex seings, and brings the uplink down and back up. Specify one of the options
listed in “Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands,” on page 19 in place of
<conn_options>.
Procedure
1 List all uplinks and information about each device.
esxcli <conn_options> network nic list
You can narrow down the information displayed by using esxcli network nic get --nic-name=<nic>.
2 (Optional) Bring down one of the uplink adapters.
esxcli <conn_options> network nic down --nic-name=vmnic0
3 Change uplink adapter seings.
esxcli <conn_options> network nic set <option>
You must specify one of the following options.
Option Description
-a|--auto
Sets the speed and duplex seings to autonegotiate.
-D|--duplex=<str> Duplex to set this NIC to. Acceptable values are full and half.
-P | --phy-address
Sets the MAC address of the device
-l|--message-level=<long>
Sets the driver message level. Message levels and what they imply dier
per driver.
-n|--nic-name=<str> Name of the NIC to congured. Must be one of the cards listed in the nic
list command (required).
-p|--port=<str>
Selects the device port. The following device ports are available.
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aui
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bnc
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fibre
n
mii
n
tp
-S|--speed=<long>
Speed to set this NIC to. Acceptable values are 10, 100, 1000, and 10000.
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