esxcfg-cfgbackup / vicfg-cfgbackup - Backup and restore ESXi host configurations
esxcfg-dns / vicfg-dns - Configure DNS properties of ESX(i) host
esxcfg-dumppart / vicfg-dumppart - Query, set & scan for diagnostic (dump) partitions on ESX(i) hosts
esxcfg-iscsi / vicfg-iscsi - Manages iSCSI storage on ESX(i) host. Add/remove discovery addresses or static targets, changes CHAP authentication, set/list HBA IP details, list LUN/target properties, enable/disable s/w iSCSI
esxcfg-module / vicfg-module - Configures VMkernel modules
esxcfg-mpath / vicfg-mpath - List iSCSI & fibre path information, and changing path state
esxcfg-mpath35 / vicfg-mpath35 - List iSCSI & fibre path information, and changing path state on ESX(i) 3.5 hosts
esxcfg-nas / vicfg-nas - Manipulates NAS file system, adds, deletes, lists, add host
esxcfg-nics / vicfg-nics - Get information, set speed/duplex for physical nics.
esxcfg-ntp / vicfg-ntp - Configure/add/delete NTP server on ESX(i) host, start/stop service
esxcfg-rescan / vicfg-rescan - Scan the LUNs on a host for a specific adapter
esxcfg-route / vicfg-route - List/add/delete VMkernel routing information for IPv4 & IPv6
esxcfg-scsidevs / vicfg-scsidevs - Displays available LUN information for ESX(i) 4.x hosts
esxcfg-snmp / vicfg-snmp - Configure/start/stop SNMP service
esxcfg-syslog / vicfg-syslog - Get/set syslog server & port
esxcfg-user / vicfg-user - Manage local users and groups for ESX(i) host
esxcfg-vmknic / vicfg-vmknic - Configures VMkernel NICs. You can add/delete VMkernel NIC, set MTU, IP address, assign DVS & dvport/portgroup, enable/disable for VMotion, IPv6 & disable TSO.
esxcfg-volume / vicfg-volume - Resignature snapshot volume and mount/unmount it. List snapshots & mount snapshot persistently.
esxcfg-vswitch / vicfg-vswitch - Add/remove virtual (dv)switches/portgroups, and modify settings.
esxcli - Manages the Pluggable Storage Array (PSA) architecture. There are 3 namespaces (nmp,corestorage and swiscsi). nmp is for the Native MultiPathing, corestorage is for managing the claim rules to mask devices, and swiscsi is for managing the iscsi interface.
resxtop - Display ESX(i) host resource utilisation
svmotion - Move storage of a virtual machine
vifs - copy/delete/get and put files & directories on ESX(i) host file system
vihostupdate - Manage (install, remove, list) software installations on ESX(i) host
vihostupdate35 - Manage (install, remove, list) software installations on ESX(i) 3.5 host
vmkfstools - Used to manipulate and creat virtual disks, file systems, logical volumes and physical storage devices. Manage VMFS and RDMs
vmware-cmd - Perform VM operations. You can retrieve information such as the power state, register and unregister the virtual machine, set configuration variables, and manage snapshots.
