List virtual machines in ESX 3.5 server

[vyrib]

Is it possible to list virtual machines and their status in ESX 3.5 host server , connected to host directly using ssh ?

Thank's

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

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Good Luck!

[lamw]

Yes, you can use vmware-cmd

To list VMs:

vmware-cmd -l

Not sure what you mean by "status", you can get some information by looking at the other options in vmware-cmd OR you can poke around using vimsh wrapper (vmware-vim-cmd)

For more information about vimsh: Take a look at this page: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_vimsh

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