Documentation

You can find information about different aspects of vCLI in separate publications.
Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces
includes information about available CLIs, enabling the
, and installing and running vCLI commands.
Reference information for vCLI and DCLI commands is available on the VMware {code} vSphere CLI page https://code.vmware.com/web/dp/tool/vsphere-cli.
  • vSphere Command-Line Interface Reference
    is a reference to
    vicfg-
    and related vCLI commands and includes reference information for ESXCLI commands. All reference information is generated from the help.
  • A reference to
    esxtop
    and
    resxtop
    is included in the
    Resource Management
    documentation.
  • The
    DCLI Reference
    is included separately from the
    vSphere Command-Line Interface Reference
    . All reference information is generated from the help.