esxcli commands

How do we use esxcli? Follow these steps:

  1. When you write the basic esxcli command and press Enter, you will see all the possible commands:
[root@esxi-prod-1:~] esxcli Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options]Available Namespaces:device Device manager commands esxcli     Commands that operate on the esxcli system itself              allowing users to get additional information.fcoe       VMware FCOE commands.graphics   VMware graphics 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, ...

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