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2 Replies Last post: Sep 18, 2009 9:28 AM by lamw  

vmware-cmd on ESXi or some way to script start\stop VMs on ESXi posted: Sep 18, 2009 8:48 AM

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Sep 18, 2009
Looking for a way to use vmware-cmd on ESXi. It doesn't appear to be possible. The only way I've found to script the start\stop of vms is VMRUN.exe on a windows machine.

Does anyone know if vmware-cmd is possible on ESXi?

Thanks

Click to view lamw's profile Champion 2,803 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
You'll want to look at using vim-cmd which is basically vimsh, there is no vmware-cmd on the unsupported Busybox console on ESXi

Here are more documentation on vimsh: http://engr.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_vimsh

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