ESX 3.5 Service Console Summary?

[McBain128]

Hello everybody,

is there a summary of the service console commands of ESX 3.5? There isn't even a manpage e.g. for the vmware-cmd command. Sometimes I have to administrate the ESX only via console and whereever ain't no good documentation there's pain

Thanks,

McBain

[ctfoster · Accepted solution]

This is one of the best resources for service console commands.

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[petedr]

in the service console you can do

vmware-cmd ?

its gives some basic information on the various options but no real details.

[McBain128]

Thanks ctfoster for the link! I wonder why these documents are not listet in the official VMware Knowledge-Base...

And petedr: yes, I did "vmware-cmd -h", but like you said it's not very detailed and I want to know what exactly the command will do BEFORE I execute it

[petedr]

Yes, the online information is not that good. One thing I have found that vmware-cmd can be hit or miss, some of the options work fine while others have issues or just don't work like connectdevice/disconnectdevice.

Another good option to vmware-cmd if you haven't looked at it for service console command line stuff is using vimsh.

xtravirt has a good document on using vimsh for 3.5

[depping]

http://www.vmreference.com/

Duncan

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[forbes]

Hi,

Just to let you know, I've moved my website to vReference.com

Forbes Guthrie

http://www.vReference.com