Running vCLI Host
Management Commands
You can run vCLI
host management commands from the command line of the system where you
installed the package and from scripts.
Host management commands, which
include ESXCLI and
vicfg-
commands, require at a minimum access to the target server to run the commands
on. Users must authenticate to the host, and can only perform tasks that they
are authorized to perform.
vicfg-
commands are
deprecated. A deprecation note is displayed when you run these commands. You
can use ESXCLI equivalents of
vicfg-
commands.
If an
system
that you target is in lockdown mode, you cannot run vCLI commands against that
system directly. You must target a
system that manages the
system and
use the
--vihost
option to specify the
target.
See
vCLI and Lockdown Mode.
See
Running DCLI Commands
for information about DCLI commands, which you can use to manage
services.