VMware vSphere (ESXi) 5.0 New CLI Commands

  12:35 AM    Santosh


Here I am going to cover few new VMware vSphere CLI utilities which you can use for vSphere 5 troubleshooting.
1. esxcfg-info = Which gives you lots of information about your ESXi host. In previous version of VMware vSphere we used to run "esxcfg-info" via the service console. Now you can run it via your browser as shown below.
https://192.168.16.145/cgi-bin/esxcfg-info.cgi
Change 192.168.16.145 with your vSphere host name or IP address.


2. vm-support - From VMware vSphere you can generate vm-support log via your browser. Just enter below URL in your browser.
https://192.168.16.145/cgi-bin/vm-support.cgi
Change 192.168.16.145 with your vSphere host name or IP address.
3. Now you  can also find unzip, Sync, pkill, strace, dmesg, ntp-keygen, ntpdc, ntpq, traceroute utility with VMware vSphere 5.0


4. /sbin/poweroffVms  this utility power offs all Virtual Machine . So be carefull.