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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 (ESX3.5+), there's also a non interactive command line 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: | In recent versions of ESX (ESX3.5+), there's also a non interactive command line 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" | ||
'''ESX 3.0.x+''' | |||
/usr/bin/vimsh -n -e "command" | |||
'''ESX 3.5+''' | |||
/usr/bin/vimsh -n -e "command" | |||
/usr/bin/vmware-vimsh "command" | |||
/usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd "command" | |||
'''ESXi 3.5+''' | |||
/bin/vim-cmd "command" | |||
==== List of commands ==== | ==== List of commands ==== | ||