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Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces

Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces
 gives an overview of command-line interfaces in vSphere and gets you started with
 commands and vCLI (VMware® vSphere Command-Line Interface) commands. This book also includes instructions for installing vCLI and a reference to connection parameters.

Intended Audience

This book is for experienced Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with vSphere administration tasks and data center operations.

Related Documentation

  • vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples
     presents usage examples for many host management commands, and explains how to set up software and hardware iSCSI, add virtual switches, place hosts in maintenance mode, and so on. The document includes the same example with the ESXCLI command and with the
    vicfg-
     command.
  • 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. See Deploying vMA.
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.

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