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The Virtual Infrastructure metashell is an undocumented and unsupported shell accessible from within the console on an ESX server. | The Virtual Infrastructure metashell is an undocumented and unsupported shell accessible from within the console on an ESX server. | ||
It can be invoked from the shell when logged in as root user as an interactive shell. | It can be invoked from the shell when logged in as root user as an interactive shell. | ||
You can almost | You can do almost anything from it what you can do from the Virtual Infrastructure client and is more powerful as the normal [[RCLI]] console commands. | ||
Below is some output of the shell that you get to see and the output of the "?" command: | Below is some output of the shell that you get to see and the output of the "?" command: | ||
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==== List of commands ==== | ==== List of commands ==== | ||
Following is a list of the | Following is a list of the available commands (the vimsh: prefix is only included as a namespace, so that it won't clash with other parts in the wiki, not sure if that's a smart thing to do...) | ||
Over time I will try to add the info found about this in here (help would be EXTREMELY appreciated) | |||
Over time I will try to add the info found about this in here (help would be EXTREMELY appreciated) right now it just lists what is available in the online help. | |||
[[vimsh: hostsvc/]] | [[vimsh: hostsvc/]] | ||
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* [http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-update-vmware-esx-patch-using-cli/ How-to update vmware ESX using CLI] | * [http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-update-vmware-esx-patch-using-cli/ How-to update vmware ESX using CLI] | ||
[[Category: ESX]][[Category: SDK]] | [[Category: ESX]][[Category: SDK]][[Category: Vimsh]] | ||