vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples

explains how to use the commands in the VMware vSphere® Command‐Line Interface (vCLI) and includes command overviews and examples.

Intended Audience

This book is for experienced Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with vSphere administration tasks and data center operations and know how to use commands in scripts.

Related Documentation

Getting Started with vSphere Command‐Line Interfaces

includes information about available CLIs, enabling the

, as well as installing and running vCLI and DCLI commands.

vSphere Command‐Line Interface Reference

is a reference to both ESXCLI commands and

vicfg-

commands. The

vicfg-

command help is generated from the POD available for each command, run

pod2html

for any

vicfg-

command to generate individual HTML files interactively. The ESXCLI reference information is generated from the ESXCLI help.

DCLI Reference

is a reference to DCLI commands for managing vCenter services.

The documentation for PowerCLI is available in the vSphere Documentation Center and on the PowerCLI documentation page.

The vSphere SDK for Perl documentation explains how you can use the vSphere SDK for Perl and related utility applications to manage your vSphere environment.

The

vSphere Management Assistant Guide

explains how to install and use the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). vMA is a virtual machine that includes vCLI and other prepackaged software.

Background information for the tasks discussed in this book is available in the vSphere documentation set. The vSphere documentation consists of the combined VMware

and

documentation.

vSphere CLI Command Overviews

Managing Hosts

Managing Files

Managing Storage

Managing iSCSI Storage

Managing Third-Party Storage Arrays

Managing Users

Managing Virtual Machines

Managing vSphere Networking

Monitoring Hosts