Supported Platforms for
vCLI Commands
Platform support
for vCLI commands differs depending on the
and
version.
You cannot run the
vihostupdate
command
against an
5.0 or
later system.
You cannot run
vicfg-syslog --setserver
or
vicfg-syslog --setport
with an
5.0 or
later target.
The following table lists
platform support for the different vCLI commands.
Command |
5.x and
6.x |
5.x and 6.x |
4.x | ESX 4.x |
4.x |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DCLI
| No | No | No | No | No |
esxcli
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
resxtop
| Yes
(from Linux) | Yes (from Linux) | Yes (from
Linux) | Yes (from Linux) | Yes (from
Linux) |
svmotion
| No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
vicfg-advcfg
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-authconfig
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-cfgbackup
| Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
vicfg-dns
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-dumppart
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-hostops
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-ipsec
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
vicfg-iscsi
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-module
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-mpath
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-nas
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-nics
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-ntp
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-rescan
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-route
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-scsidevs
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-snmp
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
vicfg-syslog
| No | No
for 5.0
target | Yes | No | Yes |
vicfg-user
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
vicfg-vmknic
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-volume
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-vswitch
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vifs
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
vihostupdate
| Use
esxcli
software vib instead. | Use
esxcli
software vib
instead. | Yes | Yes | No |
vmkfstools
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
vmware-cmd
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
vicfg-mpath35
| No | No | No | No | No |
vihostupdate35
| No | No | No | No | No |