Targets and Protocols
for vCLI Host Management Commands
Most vCLI commands
are used to manage or retrieve information about one or more
hosts.
They can target an
host or a
system.
When you target a
system, you can use
--vihost
to specify the
host to
run the command against. The only exception is
svmotion
, which you can
run against
systems, but not against
systems.
The following commands must have
an
system,
not a
system as a target.
- vifs
- vicfg-user
- vicfg-cfgbackup
- vihostupdate
- vmkfstools
The
resxtop
command requires an HTTPS connection. All other commands support HTTP and
HTTPS.