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ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.

x
After you enabled the SSH & SHELL Service you can you the below command

# esxcli

This command will provide you the available argument.

####Available Modules #####

Comman
Description
d
esxcli
Lists descriptions of device commands.
device
esxcli Lists descriptions for commands that manage Emulex elxnet
elxnet drivers.
esxcli
Lists descriptions of esxcli commands.
esxcli
esxcli fcoe FCOE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) commands
esxcli
Graphics commands
graphics
esxcli Hardware namespace. Used primarily for extracting information
hardware about the current system setup.
iSCSI namespace for monitoring and managing hardware and
esxcli iscsi
software iSCSI.
esxcli Network namespace for managing virtual networking including
network virtual switches and VMkernel network interfaces.
esxcli
Commands for managing NVMe devices.
nvme
esxcli rdma Commands for monitoring RDMA devices.
esxcli
Manage the shared system-wide swap space.
sched
esxcli Software namespace. Includes commands for managing and
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

software installing image profiles and VIBs.


esxcli Includes core storage commands and other storage management
storage commands.
esxcli
System monitoring and management command.
system
Namespace for listing virtual machines and shutting them down
esxcli vm
forcefully.
Namespace for Virtual SAN management commands. See
esxcli vsan
the vSphere Storage publication for details.

#20: esxcli command list


Description: Lists all the available namespaces and corresponding
commands.

Hence, the list of top ESXCLI namespaces for ESXi 6.7 is as


follows:
 device – device manager commands
 esxcli – commands related to ESXCLI itself
 fcoe – Fibre Channel over Ethernet commands
 graphics – VMware graphics commands
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

 hardware – commands for checking hardware properties and


configuring hardware
 iscsi – VMware iSCSI commands
 network – this namespace includes a wide range of commands
for managing general host network settings (such as the IP
address, DNS settings of an ESXi host, firewall) and virtual
networking components such as vSwitch, portgroups etc.
 nvme – managing extensions for VMware NVMe driver
 rdma – commands for managing the remote direct memory
access protocol stack
 sched – commands used for configuring scheduling and VMkernel
system properties
 software – managing ESXi software images and packages for
ESXi
 storage – commands used to manage storage
 system – commands for configuring VMkernel system properties,
the kernel core system and system services
 vm – some commands that can be used to control virtual machine
operations
 vsan – VMware vSAN commands
The main commands appear as verbs indicating the same action:
 list – show the list of objects available for the defined namespace
(for example, esxcli hardware bootdevice list – list available
boot devices)
 get – get the value of the defined setting or property (for
instance, esxcli hardware clock get – check the time set)
 set – set the necessary parameter manually (for example, esxcli
hardware clock set -y 2019 -s 00 – set the year to 2019 and
set the seconds to 00)
 load/unload – load/unload system configuration (esxcli network
firewall load – load the firewall module and firewall settings
stored in the configuration file)
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

System related commands

esxcli system version get


Description: Returns the ESXi build and version numbers.

#2: esxcli system hostname get


Description: Returns the hostname, domain and FQDN for the host.

#3: esxcli system stats installtime get


Description: Returns the date and time of when ESXi was installed.
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

esxcli system account list


Description: Lists the local users created on the ESXi host.

#5: esxcli system account add -d=”karthikeyan” -i=”actual


name(karthi)”
-p=”password ″ -c=”confirm password ″
Description: This command allows you to create local ESXi users. All the
parameters used in the example are mandatory.

#6: esxcli system maintenanceMode set –enable true


Description: Use this command to put ESXi in maintenance mode or take
it out.
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

#7: esxcli system shutdown reboot -d 10 -r “Add descriptions for


this shutdown”
Description: Use this command to reboot or shutdown ESXi. The -
d parameter is a countdown timer; minimum 10 seconds. ESXi must be in
maintenance mode before you can use the command.

Network related commands


#8: esxcli network firewall get
Description: Returns the status of the ESXi firewall. The default action is
to drop traffic unless allowed through by a specific firewall rule.
The Enabled field indicates whether the firewall is enabled.
The Loaded field shows whether the firewall module is active or not
(see esxcli firewall load | unload commands).

#9: esxcli network firewall set –enabled true | false


Description: Use this command to disable the ESXi firewall for
troubleshooting purposes. Note that disabling the firewall on ESXi is highly
discouraged.
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

#10: esxcli network firewall ruleset list | awk ‘$2 ==”true”‘ #


Need to study the awk command in linux course.
Description: Generates a list of all enabled firewall rules on ESXi. The
command is piped to awk which will matches the value from the second
column to “true” so only enabled rules are displayed.

#11: esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get


Description: Displays the IPv4 configuration for all the interfaces present
on ESXi.

V.V.V.V Important

Software related commands


ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

#12: esxcli software vib list


Description: Lists all the currently installed VIBs on ESXi. A VIB is a file
packaging format used to distribute software on ESXi.

#13: esxcli software vib update -d “/tmp/update.zip”


Description: Use this command to update an installed VIB on ESXi. Note
that the command does not install any new software. Instead it only
updates what’s currently installed. Use esxcli software vib
install instead when installing new software. The -d parameter specifies
the full path to the package being used for the update. As per the next
screenshot, I specified a non-existing patch hence the error message.

Virtual Machine related commands


#14: esxcli vm process list
Description: Lists all the running VMs on the hosts. The World ID can be
used with other commands to carry out various tasks related to VMs.

#15: esxcli vm process kill -w 69237 -t soft


Description: Use this command to kill a running VM such as one that fails
to respond to commands. You must first retrieve the VM’s World ID (see
command #14) and pass it on using the -w parameter. The -t <soft | hard
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

| force> mandatory parameter sets the type of kill operation. Start


with soft so you allow the VM to shut down cleanly. If this does not work,
try the hard option which will kill the VM processes immediately as in kill -
9. The Force type should only be used as a last resort. If none work, your
only option is to reboot ESXi.

Storage related commands


#16: esxcli storage vmfs extent list
Description: The command generates a list of extents for each volume
as well as the corresponding device name to UUID mapping.

#17: esxcli storage filesystem list


Description: The command lists of all the volumes or datastores
accessible by the ESXi host. The output includes the file system type, disk
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

info along with the volume name, path and UUID.

iSCSI related commands


#18: esxcli iscsi software set –enabled true && esxcli iscsi
software get
Description: The above command actually consists of two concatenated
commands, which is what && does. The first command enables the iSCSI
software adapter and the second verifies that the iSCSI adapter is
enabled.

#19: esxcli iscsi adapter param get -A vmhba65


Description: The command returns metrics for the specified iSCSI
adapter. These include the current, minimum and maximum values and
whether the listed parameters may be configured or not. The name of the
iSCSI adapter you want to be queried is specified via the -A parameter.
The adapter name is retrieved using esxcli iscsi adapter list or from the
vSphere Web client.
ESXCLI COMMANDS FOR ESXI 5.x – 7.x

#V.V.V Important

Esxtop command

#esxtop

After opening the task manager with the esxtop command, you
can switch between tabs by pressing the appropriate keys:
C - CPU
I – interrupt
M – memory
N – network
D – disk adapter
U – disk device
V – disk VM
P – power management
Find the file in the current directory:
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/most-useful-esxcli-esxi-shell-
commands-vmware-environment/
Need do cuztamize with this above site.
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