ESXI Konsole

• esxi konsole virtuell machines
• esxi konsole snapshots
• esxi konsole mount
• esxi konsole net
• esxi konsole misc

links

• http://www.vserver-online.de/blog/mru/esxcfg
• http://www.vserver-online.de/blog/mru/commandlineref
• http://www.vserver-online.de/blog/mru/vmkfstools
• http://www.vserver-online.de/blog/mru/vimsh

muss noch rein

esxcfg-vswitch -a vSwitch0
esxcfg-vswitch -a vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic0 vSwitch0
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -A pGroup0 vSwitch0
esxcfg-vswitch -A pGroup1 vSwitch1
esxcfg-vmknic -a -i 172.20.0.101 -n 255.255.0.0 pGroup0
esxcfg-vmknic -a -i 172.21.0.101 -n 255.255.0.0 pGroup1

mount

• esxi-console-mount

ipadressen anzeigen

esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get -i vmk1

esxcli

Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options]

Options:
 --formatter=FORMATTER
                       Override the formatter to use for a given command. Available formatter: xml, csv, keyvalue
 --debug               Enable debug or internal use options
 --version             Display version information for the script
 -?, --help            Display usage information for the script
Available Namespaces:
 esxcli                Commands that operate on the esxcli system itself allowing users to get additional information.
 fcoe                  VMware FCOE commands.
 hardware              VMKernel hardware properties and commands for configuring hardware.
 iscsi                 VMware iSCSI commands.
 network               Operations that pertain to the maintenance of networking on an ESX host. This includes a wide variety of commands to manipulate virtual networking components  (vswitch, portgroup, etc) as well as local host IP, DNS and general
                       host networking settings.
 software              Manage the ESXi software image and packages
 storage               VMware storage commands.
 system                VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring properties of the kernel core system.
 vm                    A small number of operations that allow a user to Control Virtual Machine operations.

install software packet

esxcli software vib install -v http://192.168.240.27/VMware_bootbank_scsi-megaraid-sas_5.34-1vmw.500.0.0.406165.vib

splitting disks merge

esxcli system module load -m multiextent
vmkfstools -i old.vmdk new.vmdk

vms list

esxcli vm process list

Power off one of the virtual machines from the list using this command

esxcli vm process kill --type=[soft,hard,force] --world-id=WorldNumber

Nameserver Handling

• esxcli network ip dns server list
• esxcli network ip dns server add --server=192.168.202.240
• esxcli network ip dns server remove --server=192.168.144.51
• esxcli network ip dns search add -d xinux.lan

Links

• https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-6-5/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcli.examples.doc%2FGUID-EB25E39D-A150-4627-9F6E-8F2C0C56ACE4.html