vmware-cmd Overview

vmware-cmd
was included in earlier version of the ESX Service Console. A
vmware-cmd
command has been available in the vCLI package since
version 3.0.
vmware-cmd
is not available in the
. Run the
vmware-cmd
vCLI command instead.
Older versions of
vmware-cmd
support a set of connection options and general options that differ from the options in other vCLI commands. The
vmware-cmd
vCLI command supports these options. The vCLI command also supports the standard vCLI
--server
,
--username
,
--password
, and
--vihost
options.
vmware-cmd
does not support other connection options.
vmware-cmd
is a legacy tool and supports the usage of VMFS paths for virtual machine configuration files. As a rule, use datastore paths to access virtual machine configuration files.