I have listed some of the useful coemmands that will be required in day-to day operations , and which will be used by VMware admins
These are the common syntax that we use for the commands .
esxcli --help
vifp --help
vifptarget --help
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How to add vcenter and ESXi as target
"vifp addserver server --authpolicy fpauth --username root"
How to list the server added as target
vifp listservers
To set the ESXi as the current target
vifptarget -s server
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some of the important commands to query esxi for parameters
esxcli hardware cpu list : to get CPU characteristics on the ESXi host
esxcli hardware memory get : to get memory characteristics on the ESXi host
esxcli hardware platform getI will : to get the hardware platform
esxcli system version get : to get the Esxi version installed on Bios
esxcli hardware clock get : to get the hardware clock
esxcli system hostname get: to get the hostname
esxcli system boot device get : to get boot device list
vicfg-ntp --list : to list the Ntp servers details
vmware-cmd <vmx_file_path> start : to power on the server
vmware-cmd <file_path> getstate : To get execution of VM
esxcli vm process list : this will list the process in running virtual machine
vmware-cmd <VM_file_path> hassnapshot : to check if the VM has sanpshot
vmware-cmd <VM_file_path> stop soft : to power off the virtual machine
In my next blog post i will list down some of the useful Network , Storage troubleshooting commands and some poweCLI commands which will be useful for all Admins
Thanks and Regards,
Nithyanathan R