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An advantage of vimsh over normal esx-cfg commands is that the changes are immediate, so you do not need to restart the vmware management services. | An advantage of vimsh over normal esx-cfg commands is that the changes are immediate, so you do not need to restart the vmware management services. | ||
In recent versions of ESX, there's also a command line non interactive version of vimsh that can be used from within a script which is called [[vmware-vim-cmd]] | In recent versions of ESX, there's also a command line non interactive version of vimsh that can be used from within a script which is called [[vmware-vim-cmd]] and is much easier to read in your scripts as the alternative: | ||
vimsh -n -e <command> | |||
==== List of commands ==== | ==== List of commands ==== | ||
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As there's no official documentation, here's the link to the current authorative documentation: | As there's no official documentation, here's the link to the current authorative documentation: | ||
* [http://knowledge.xtravirt.com/white-papers/scripting.html Xtravirt scripting papers about vimsh among others] | * [http://knowledge.xtravirt.com/white-papers/scripting.html Xtravirt scripting papers about vimsh among others] | ||
Example usage (article in dutch) | |||
* [http://www.l4l.be/docs/virt/vimsh.php Voorbeelden gebruik VIMSH] | |||
* [http://effectief.blogspot.com/2007/09/vimsh-handy-vmware-esx-command-line.html Koen Warsons blog: handy Vmware ESX Command line tool] | |||
* [http://vmwaretips.com/wp/2008/09/12/netapp-snapshots-in-esx/#more-20 NetApp Snapshots in ESX] | |||
* [http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-update-vmware-esx-patch-using-cli/ How-to update vmware ESX using CLI] | |||