Top 10 VMware vSphere CLI commands you need to know!

ESXi contains powerful built-in commandline commands allowing admins to perform troubleshooting, configuration, management, and other tasks without the GUI. We look at the top 10 ESXi CLI commands you need to know and how they are used.

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Introduction - 0:00
Video Sponsor - BDRSuite by Vembu - 0:49
Overview of the esxcli command and subcommands - 1:38
Looking at all the esxcli options - 1:52
Discover IP addresses - esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get - 2:10
More network details using - esxcli network ip interface list - 3:10
Netstat for ESXI! - esxcli network ip connection list - 4:23
Special ping for ESXi - vmkping command - 5:05
Running the vmkping command - 5:37
Verifying jumbo frame connectivity with vmkping - 6:21
Introduction to esxtop - 6:53
Highlighting one use case for esxtop - 7:20
Launching esxtop - 7:56
Esxtop network view and viewing which vmnic a VM is communicating on - 8:05
Restarting management services - 8:51
Discussing the behavior when restarting management services - 9:35
Launching the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) from the command line - 10:13
Setting maintenance mode from the commandline - esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true - 11:01
Verifying maintenance mode from the commandline - 11:31
Updating your ESXi server from the commandline - 11:45
Unmapping thin provisioned blocks from the commandline - esxcli storage vmfs unmap -u - 12:32
Wrapping up the top ESXi CLI commands - 13:40

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[yokeswaranuma]

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[SurendraMkarnataka_bangalore]

Great Video, looking forward for more such videos...👍

[gajendrakumar]

Really very help full this please make more video on vm troubleshooting level

[SAOUTRadouane]

Thanks a lot Man your are verry pro and skilled i wich you the best :)

[aragaorj]

Hey! All good? Is there a way to change IP, Mask, Gateway and VLAN in a single command or script?

[carbon-kevin]

Where are you getting the URL and version ID for the update command? Does VMWare have this documented somewhere?

[mikeschinkel]

Nice video, but for the newbies to VMware admin I was hoping you would explain how to run esxicli. Do you have to run it from the physical console or can you install it on a Mac or Windows or Linux machine and run if over SSH? Is there anything you have to do to configure the VMware server to be able to support it? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[michaelperugini]

looking to figure out how to change the esxi switch so that it matches my network, i am taking a class, so we put vmware player on our computers then using playuer install esxi hypervisor as a guest to use it as a host for two guest.. (vm inside of a vm) i can ping from my main computer to the hypervisor but its doing some kind of routing as the hypervisor is 192.168.139 address as my home network is 192.168.70 addresses i tried puttinng the hypervisor into bridge mode it grabbed a 192.168.70 ip.. but i cannot ping from my main pc but if i put it back to default 192.168.139 NAT i can ping it.. in the web client i can see the switch is 192.168.139.x but how do i tell the hypervisor to NOT do dhcp, only get an ip from my physical network, and then the guests on the hypervisor would also be getting ips from my physical network.?

[imranbhatti]

you've a great male voice tone. You should try voice overs.

[LegionInfanterie]

hello guys anyone can help? I have little home lab with ESxi8 and storage at synology nas via LUN connection, I increase LUN space for more storage, but I dont know how to inreacse it in esxi or vcenter, always get error anyone can help?