ESX CLI Commands
ESX CLI Commands
Virtual Infrastructure ESX has a service console which can be used to management purposes. This is a light weight linux based (RHEL3) Virtual Machine which has special privileges that can be used in order to manage your host and Virtual Machines. Down here we will be trying to document the available commands that you can use on this service console from the so called Command Line Interface (CLI).
In ESXi (3.x) the service console has been removed from the host and there's only a remote alternative available, which is called the RCLI. The chapter here only contains the documentation for the full blown version not the RCLI.
Any changes made to the configuration of the host will not be seen by vCenter Server or the host itself until you restart the vmware-hostd daemon. By restarting this daemon, the configuration file /etc/vmware/esx.conf will be re-read.
service mgmt-vmware restart
will restart this daemon.
The available commands
esxcfg-advcfg esxcfg-auth esxcfg-boot esxcfg-configcheck esxcfg-dumppart esxcfg-firewall esxcfg-hwiscsi esxcfg-info esxcfg-init esxcfg-linuxnet esxcfg-module esxcfg-mpath esxcfg-nas esxcfg-nics esxcfg-pciid esxcfg-rescan esxcfg-resgrp esxcfg-route esxcfg-swiscsi esxcfg-upgrade esxcfg-vmhbadevs esxcfg-vmknic esxcfg-vswif esxcfg-vswitch esxupdate vcbExport vcbMounter vcbResAll vcbRestore vcbSnapAll vcbSnapshot vcbUtil vcbVmName vdf vmfsqhtool vmfsqueuetool vmkchdev vmkdump vmkerrcode vmkfstools vmkiscsid vmkiscsi-device vmkiscsi-ls vmkiscsi-tool vmkiscsi-util vmkloader vmkload_mod vmklogger vmkpcidivy vmkping vmkuptime.pl vmres.pl vmsnap_all vmsnap.pl vmstat vm-support vmware vmware-authd vmware-autopoweron.sh vmware-cmd vmware-configcheck vmware-config.pl vmware-hostd vmware-hostd-support vmware-mkinitrd vmware-vim-cmd vmware-vimdump vmware-vimsh vmware-watchdog vmware-webAccess
