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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: | ||
[/]$ ? | [/]$ ? | ||
hostsvc/ vmsvc/ csinfo help | hostsvc/ vmsvc/ csinfo help puload | ||
internalsvc/ ? | internalsvc/ ? csls pinfo puse | ||
proxysvc/ | proxysvc/ argtype csuimport pload quit | ||
solo/ | solo/ cls echo ploadpath sleep | ||
vimsvc/ csimport exit | vimsvc/ csimport exit pls source | ||
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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 | 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" | ||
vimsh -n -e | |||
'''ESX 3.0.x+''' | |||
/usr/bin/vimsh -n -e "command" | |||
'''ESX 3.5+''' | |||
/usr/bin/vimsh -n -e "command" | |||
/usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd "command" | |||
'''ESXi 3.5+''' | |||
/bin/vim-cmd "command" | |||
/usr/bin/vimsh is a symbolic link to the file [[vmware-vimsh]] in the same folder. | |||
==== 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) | ||
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 and in many cases some example output of the commands. | |||
[[vimsh: hostsvc/]] | [[vimsh: hostsvc/]] | ||
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This command has its origin as a support shell only. | This command has its origin as a support shell only. | ||
It is rumored about that | It is rumored about that vimsh will be supported in one of the upcoming versions of ESX | ||
==== External links ==== | ==== External links ==== | ||
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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] | ||
* [http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_vimsh William Lam's "VMware's undocumented vimsh"] | |||
[[Category: ESX]][[Category: SDK]][[Category: Vimsh]] | |||
