vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples

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.