Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

ESXCFG-

There is also another set of CLI commands that start with esxcfg-*. Those commands are a little bit older but still very useful. They can be used from the ESXi host's shell or also via vMA and, in this case, they will start with vicfg-*.

In the following example, you see duplicated CLI for the same output as esxcli. Yes, any CLI duplicates esxcli.

We can show the same as with esxcli.

To see all the available commands, you can type esxcfg- followed by a double hit of the Tab button. You will be able to see all possible esxcfg- CLI commands:

[root@esxi1:~] esxcfg-esxcfg-advcfg esxcfg-hwiscsi esxcfg-ipsec esxcfg-nas esxcfg-resgrp esxcfg-swiscsi esxcfg-vswitchesxcfg-dumppart esxcfg-info esxcfg-module esxcfg-nics esxcfg-route esxcfg-vmknic ...