Issue command to host or via vCenter to host from remote workstation, which requires https authentication. (command-line, session file, or configuration file. password prompt, Active Directory, Credential store, and Environment variable could also be used for authentication)
For Windows: commmand.pl
For Linux: command
For vMA, a prepackaged Centos OS VM: command
CLI could be used in windows or Linux script to perform repetitive tasks on multiple hosts.
Most commands start with vicfg-***
Here is some commands not started with vicfg:
- vifs
- vihostupdate(35)
- vmkfstools
- esxcli
- vmware-cmd
- svmotion
- resxtop
For the easy migration purpose, some vicfg-* command also has esxcfg-* equivalent at CLI, which could be obsolete at future CLI
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