VMware ESX Commands

VMware ESX Commands

1. Look at your ESX version.

Vmware–v

2. View display ESX hardware, kernel, storage, network and other information

Esxcfg-info-a (Show all relevant information)

ESXCFG-INFO-W (displays hardware information on ESX)

3. List services known to ESX

Esxcfg-firewall–s

4. View the specific service situation

Esxcfg-firewall-q sshclinet

5. Restart VMware Services

Service Mgmt-vmware Restart

6. Change the root password

passwd Root

7. Set Kernel advanced options

esxcfg-advcfg-d (Restore the system kernel to its default value)

8. Managing Resource Groups

Esxcfg-resgrp-l (Show all resource groups)

9. List your current virtual switches

Esxcfg-vswitch-l

Esxcfg-vswitch-v 10-p "Serviceconsole" VSwitch0 (the service console on the vSwitch0 is divided into VLAN 10, VLAN is not set if VLAN number is 0)

10. View the settings of the console

Esxcfg-vswif-l (List of added network cards)

Esxcfg-vswif-a (add NIC)

11. List the network card of the system

Esxcfg-nics–l

12. Add a virtual switch named (internal) connected to two physical network cards (restart the service, vi can see)

Esxcfg-vswitch-a VSwitch1

Esxcfg-vswitch-a Internal VSwitch1

Esxcfg-vswitch-l Vmnic1 VSwitch1

Esxcfg-vswitch-l Vmnic2 VSwitch1

13. Delete the switch, (note, do not remove the console switch)

Esxcfg-vswitch-d VSwitch1

14. Remove the NIC on the switch

Esxcfg-vswitch-u Vmnic1 VSWITCH2

15. Delete PortGroup

esxcfg-vswitch-d Internel Vswitch1

16. Create Vmkernel switch, if you want to use these features of VMOTION,ISCSI, you must create (usually do not need to add a gateway)

Esxcfg-vswitch-l

Esxcfg-vswitch-a VSWITCH2

Esxcfg-vswitch-a "VM kernel" VSWITCH2

Esxcfg-vswitch-l vmnic3 VSWITCH2

Esxcfg-vmknic-a "VM kernel"-i172.16.1.141-n 255.255.252.0 (Add a Vmkernel)

17. Firewall settings

ESXCFG-FIREWALL-E sshclient (open firewall SSH port)

Esxcfg-firewall-d sshclient (Close firewall ssh port)

ESXCFG-FIREWALL-E Veritasnetbackup (Veritas NetBackup Service allowed)

Esxcfg-firewall-o 123,UDP,OUT,NTP (123 port output in UDP protocol open for NTP service)

18. Routing Management

Esxcfg-route (routing management for VM Generation network cards)

Esxcfg-route (Show routing table)

Esxcfg-route 172.16.0.254 (set Vmkernel Gateway)

19. Create a console

Esxcfg-vswitch-a VSwitch0

Esxcfg-vswitch-a "Service Console" VSwitch0

Esxcfg-vswitch-l vmnic0 VSwitch0

Esxcfg-vswif-a vswif0-p "Serviceconsole"-I 172.16.1.140-n 255.255.252.0

20. Add a NAS device (a tag,-O, is the name of the NAS server or ip,-s is the shared name of the NAS input)

Esxcfg-nas-a Isos-o nas.vmwar.cn-s ISOs

21.nas Connection Management

Esxcfg-nas-r (forcing ESX to connect to NAS server)

Esxcfg-nas-l (use Esxcfg-nas-l to see the results)

Esxcfg-nas-a (add NAS file system to/vmfs directory)

esxcfg-nas-d (delete nas file system)

22. Scan LUN information on SCSI devices

Esxcfg-rescan <vmkernel SCSI Adapter name>

23. Connecting iSCSI devices (e:enable Q: Query D, disable S: Forced search)

Esxcfg-swiscsi-e

24. Set Targetip

Vmkiscsi-tool-d-a 172.16.1.133 vmhba40

25. List the connection to target

Vmkiscsi-tool-l-T Vmhba40

26. List the current disk

Ls-l/vmfs/devices/disks

27. Kernel Dump management tool

Esxcfg-dumppart-l (show current dump partition configuration information)

28. Path Management

Esxcfg-mpath-l (Show all Paths)

Esxcfg-mpath-a (Show all HBA cards)

29.ESX Authorization Management configuration

Esxcfg-auth

Esxcfg-auth--enablenis (running NIS authentication)

30. Manage Startup devices

Esxcfg-boot

Esxcfg-boot-b (update boot device)

31. Perform INITRD initialization settings

Esxcfg-init

Esxcfg-init (Initialize device)

32.esxcfg-linuxnet (in Linux debug mode, the conversion vswif device is named as the ETH naming rule that comes with Linux)

Esxcfg-linuxnet--setup

33. Upgrade

Esxcfg-upgrade (esx2.x upgrade to esx3.x)

This article is from the "Xianyunyehe" blog, make sure to keep this source http://228110.blog.51cto.com/218110/1589643

VMware ESX Commands