Authenticating Through
vCenter Server
and vCenter Single Sign-On

For all

ESXi

hosts that are managed by a

vCenter Server

system that is integrated with vCenter Single Sign-On, you can authenticate directly to the

vCenter Server

system, or you can authorize to

vCenter Server

through vCenter Single Sign-On.

The best practice is to authenticate through vCenter Single Sign-On.

You use the following options.

server

- Specifies the

vCenter Server

system that manages the host.

vihost

- Specifies the

ESXi

host.

Example

esxcli --server <vc_hostname_or_IP> --vihost <esxi_hostname_or_IP> --username <user_name> --password <password> hardware clock get