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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
2 Choose the VMX le for the virtual machine of interest.
By default, the virtual disk le has the same name as the VMX le but has a .vmdk extension.
3 (Optional) Use vifs to verify that you are using the correct VMDK le.
Relocate a Virtual Machine's Storage
You can relocate a virtual machine's storage including the disks.
Procedure
1 Determine the path to the virtual machine conguration le.
2 Run svmotion by using the following syntax.
svmotion
--url=https://myvc.mycorp.com/sdk --datacenter=DC1
--vm="[storage1] myvm/myvm.vmx:new_datastore"
N The example is for Windows. Use single quotes on Linux.
Relocate a Virtual Machine's Configuration File
You can relocate a virtual machine's conguration le, but leave the virtual disks.
Procedure
1 Determine the path to the virtual disk les and the virtual machine conguration le.
2 Run svmotion by using the following syntax.
svmotion
<conn_options>
--datacenter='My DC'
--vm='[old_datastore] myvm/myvm.vmx:new_datastore'
--disks='[old_datastore] myvm/myvm_1.vmdk:old_datastore, [old_datastore] myvm/myvm_2.vmdk:
old_datastore'
N The example is for Linux. Use double quotes on Windows. The square brackets surround the
datastore name and do not indicate an optional element.
This command relocates the virtual machine's conguration le to new_datastore, but leaves the two
disks, myvm_1.vmdk and myvm_2.vmdk, in old_datastore.
Configuring FCoE Adapters
ESXi can use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapters to access Fibre Channel storage.
The FCoE protocol encapsulates Fibre Channel frames into Ethernet frames. As a result, your host does not
need special Fibre Channel links to connect to Fibre Channel storage, but can use 10 Gbit lossless Ethernet to
deliver Fibre Channel trac.
To use FCoE, you need to install FCoE adapters. The adapters that VMware supports generally fall into two
categories, hardware FCoE adapters and software FCoE adapters.
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Hardware FCoE adapters include completely ooaded specialized Converged Network Adapters
(CNAs) that contain network and Fibre Channel functionalities on the same card. When such an
adapter is installed, your host detects and can use both CNA components. In the vSphere Web Client,
the networking component appears as a standard network adapter (vmnic) and the Fibre Channel
component as a FCoE adapter (vmhba). You do not have to congure a hardware FCoE adapter to be
able to use it.
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