Connection Options for
vCLI Host Management Commands
You can run host
management commands such as ESXCLI commands,
vicfg-
commands, and other commands with several different connection options.
You can target hosts directly or
target a
system and specify the host you want to manage. If you are targeting a
system, specify the Platform Services Controller, which includes the vCenter
Single Sign-On service, for best security.
For
connections to
hosts
version 6.0 or later, vCLI supports both the IPv4 protocol and the IPv6
protocol. For earlier versions, vCLI supports only IPv4. In all cases, you can
configure IPv6 on the target host with several of the networking commands.
See the
Getting Started with
vSphere Command-Line Interfaces
documentation for a complete list and
examples.