Vmware Vsphere Cli 5.5 Software You Might

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The esxcli is a complete set of commands that you can use for troubleshooting, configuration or kickstart files.

I have created and printed a mindmap to navigate through the namespaces more quickly.

This post covers only basic namespaces, available on all ESXi 5.5 hosts.

Vmware Vsphere Cli 5.5 Software You Might

If youve installed additional software you might see more namespaces.

Ive also created a Mindmap for ESXi 5.1 some time ago.

ESXCLI in version 5.5 has 13 namespaces: Available Namespaces.

ESXCLI The esxcli namespace can be used to list all available namespaces and commands.

Ive used this command to get the list, export it to a CSV file to create this mindmaps.

FCOE The fcoe namespace has Fibre Channel over Ethernet discovery and adapter listing capabilities.

GRAPHICS (New in vSphere 5.5) The graphics adapter manages hardware-accelerated 3D graphics for virtual machines.

HARDWARE The hardware namespace can be used to gather information about the physical hardware.

This can be really helpful in kickstart scripts, to configure shared storage arrays.

NETWORK The network namespace is the most powerful namespace.

You can configure local vSwitches and Distributed Virtual Switches (dvSwitch).

You can also manage the local IP address and firewall configuration.

This is a must have in your automated ESXi installation workflow.

SCHED This sched namespace manages VMKernel scheduling functions.

SOFTWARE The software namespace can be used to install updates and additional packages.

It also allows you to set the software acceptance level to use vib packages created by the community.

You can configure lun masking, mount nfs shares, manage vmfs filesystems and investigate the path configuration.

SYSTEM Any ESXi host related configuration tasks can be performed with the system namespace.

It can be used to forcibly kill virtual machines that are stuck and not responding to normal stop operations.

VSAN (New in vSphere 5.5) The vsan namespace manages the Virtual SAN feature, introduced with vSphere 5.5.

All together This is a complete mindmap of all esxcli commands.

Its quite large, but if you print it to A4 or letter, you can still read it.

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