DCLI and the

The Data Center CLI (DCLI) is a CLI client of the VMware vSphere®Automation SDK. Almost all methods that are available in the
vSphere Automation
SDKs are available as DCLI commands.
You can run the DCLI from the
VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface
(
vCLI
) package or from the appliance shell.
For an illustration showing appliance connections, see the block diagram Figure 1.
For more information about the DCLI, see
Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces
.