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Sunday, 22 May 2011

vMA 4.1 commands

esxcfg-advcfg / vicfg-advcfg - Modify advanced kernel options, e.g. adjust CIM providers, set DCUI message ...


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.

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