Using The Esxi 5.0 Vcli Command Set

[music] Hi, I'm Tasnim Fidali, Senior Technical Writer at VMware. In this video, I'm giving an overview of vCLI 5.0 commands. The vCLI 5.0 package includes ESXCLI commands and a set of other commands for remote management of your vSphere environment. You can use the commands from a remote management server and in scripts. You install the vCLI package on one of the supported Windows or Linux systems, or you deploy the vMA virtual appliance. vMA has vCLI preinstalled in a Linux environment. You can then run commands against an ESXi host directly, or run commands against the vCenter Server and target the ESXi host. ESXCLI uses a nested set of namespaces. At the first level, we have ESXCLI fcoe hardware i-scsi network software storage system and vm Namespaces can include other namespaces and commands. For example, the network namespace includes the ip interface ipv4 set command, which allows you to configure IPv4 settings for a Vmkernel network interface. The ip DNS server add command adds a DNS server to the list of DNS servers for the target ESXi host. Some namespaces are fairly flat. For example, the ESXCLI hardware namespace has six first-level namespaces, and the hierarchy is three deep. The network namespace includes almost fifty commands in a more deeply nested hierarchy. The commands let you retrieve and manipulate firewall, virtual switches, port groups, and much more. The vCLI 5.0 package includes all viconfig commands included with vCLI 4.1. For many of the commands, you can use the equivalent ESXCLI command instead. No ESXCLI equivalents exist for these commands: viconfig-authconfig viconfig-configbackup viconfig-hostops viconfig-IPsec viconfig-ntp viconfig-route viconfig-snmp and viconfig-user vCLI includes a few additional commands. vmkfstools manipulates VMFS vifs sends and retrieves files resxtop is a performance monitoring tool and svmotion performs Storage Vmotion. For more information, you can download the vCLI poster from the ESXi chronicles, use the command line help or visit pubs.vmware.com