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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 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
See the vSphere Networking documentation and the white paper available through the Resources link at
hp://www.vmware.com/go/networking for information about distributed switches and how to congure
them using the vSphere Web Client.
You can add and remove distributed switch uplink ports by using vicfg-vswitch.
I You cannot add and remove uplink ports with ESXCLI.
After the distributed switch has been set up, you can use vicfg-vswitch to add or remove uplink ports.
Specify one of the options listed in “Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands,” on
page 19 in place of <conn_options>.
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Add an uplink port.
vicfg-vswitch <conn_options> --add-dvp-uplink <adapter_name> --dvp <DVPort_id>
<dvswitch_name>
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Remove an uplink port.
vicfg-vswitch <conn_options> --del-dvp-uplink <adapter_name> --dvp <DVPort_id>
<dvswitch_name>
Managing Standard Networking Services in the vSphere Environment
You can use vCLI commands to set up DNS, NTP, SNMP, and the default gateway for your vSphere
environment.
Setting the DNS Configuration
You can set the DNS conguration with ESXCLI or with vicfg-dns.
Setting the DNS Configuration with ESXCLI
The esxcli network ip dns command lists and species the DNS conguration of your ESXi host.
I If you try to change the host or domain name or the DNS server on hosts that use DHCP, an
error results.
In network environments where a DHCP server and a DNS server are available, ESXi hosts are
automatically assigned DNS names.
In network environments where automatic DNS is not available or you do not want to use automatic DNS,
you can congure static DNS information, including a host name, primary name server, secondary name
server, and DNS suxes.
The esxcli network ip dns namespace includes two namespaces.
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esxcli network ip dns search includes commands for DNS search domain conguration.
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esxcli network ip dns server includes commands for DNS server conguration.
Set Up a DNS Server with ESXCLI
You can use ESXCLI to set up a DNS server.
The following example illustrates seing up a DNS server. Specify one of the options listed in “Connection
Options for vCLI Host Management Commands,” on page 19 in place of <conn_options>.
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