{"id":456,"date":"2013-07-24T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dety.net.ua\/?p=456"},"modified":"2013-07-24T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:45:14","slug":"vmware-esxi-cli-useful-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"VmWare ESXi CLI useful commands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Show services on the host and their default state upon boot (on\/off)<\/p>\n<p><b>cat \/etc\/chkconfig.db<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Restart all services on the host<\/p>\n<p><b>\/sbin\/services.sh restart<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Show config file of vCenter vpxa agent<\/p>\n<p><b>cat\u00a0\/etc\/vmware\/vpxa\/vpxa.cfg<\/b> <b><br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nEnter maintenance mode<\/p>\n<p><b>vim-cmd hostsvc\/maintenance_mode_enter<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Virtual machine operations<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>vim-vmd solo\/registervm &lt;path to VM&#8217;s .vmx file&gt;<\/b> &#8211; register VM on a host <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/getallvms<\/b> &#8211; list all VMs registered on the host<\/p>\n<p>* in the following commands replace &lt;vmid&gt; with virtual machine ID obtained by running the previous command<\/p>\n<p><b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/power.getstate &lt;vmid&gt;<\/b> &#8211; show power state of a VM <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/power.shutdown\u00a0 &lt;vmid&gt;<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; shutdown a VM (shutdown guest) <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/power.reset\u00a0 &lt;vmid&gt;<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; reset a VM <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/power.off\u00a0&lt;vmid&gt; <\/b>\u00a0&#8211; power off a VM <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/power.on\u00a0&lt;vmid&gt; <\/b>&#8211; power on a VM <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/power.reboot\u00a0&lt;vmid&gt; <\/b>&#8211; reboot a VM <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/get.summary\u00a0 &lt;vmid&gt;<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; get summary information for a VM <b>vim-cmd vmsvc\/unregister\u00a0 &lt;vmid&gt;<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; unregister a VM from a host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show services on the host and their default state upon boot (on\/off) cat \/etc\/chkconfig.db Restart all services on the host \/sbin\/services.sh restart Show config file of vCenter vpxa agent cat\u00a0\/etc\/vmware\/vpxa\/vpxa.cfg Enter maintenance mode vim-cmd hostsvc\/maintenance_mode_enter Virtual machine operations vim-vmd solo\/registervm &lt;path to VM&#8217;s .vmx file&gt; &#8211; register VM on a host vim-cmd vmsvc\/getallvms &#8211; list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novosti","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dety.net.ua\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}