ESXCLI Reference
ESXCLI Reference
The ESXCLI command set allows you to run common system administration commands against vSphere systems from an administration server of your choice. The actual list of commands depends on the system that you are running on. Run esxcli --help
for a list of commands on your system.
ESXCLI Commands
Namespace | Description |
esxcli daemon | Commands for controlling daemons built with Daemon SDK (DSDK). |
esxcli device | Lists descriptions of device commands. |
esxcli esxcli | Lists descriptions of esxcli commands. |
esxcli fcoe | FCOE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) comands |
esxcli graphics | Graphics commands |
esxcli hardware | Hardware namespace. Used primarily for extracting information about the current system setup. |
esxcli iscsi | iSCSI namespace for monitoring and managing hardware and software iSCSI. |
esxcli network | Network namespace for managing virtual networking including virtual switches and VMkernel network interfaces. |
esxcli nvme | Commands for managing NVMe devices. |
esxcli rdma | Commands for monitoring RDMA devices. |
esxcli sched | Manage the shared system-wide swap space. |
esxcli software | Software namespace. Includes commands for managing and installing image profiles and VIBs. |
esxcli storage | Includes core storage commands and other storage management commands. |
esxcli system | System monitoring and management command. |
esxcli vm | Namespace for listing virtual machines and shutting them down forcefully. |
esxcli vsan | Namespace for vSAN management commands. See the vSphere Storage publication for details. |
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ESXi 7.0 U2 ESXCLI Command Reference