With the release of vSphere 5.1, there have been some major enhancements to ESXCLI which is part of the vCLI 5.1 release, also available with the latest vMA 5.1. Here’s a quick summary overview of the ESXCLI top level root namespaces that have received updates.
82 new ESXCLI commands:
7 hardware
2 sched
47 network
15 storage
11 system
In addition to the new ESXCLI commands for vSphere 5.1 features, we continue to bring further parity from some of our legacy esxcfg-* and vicfg-* commands over to ESXCLI and to standardize on a common command-line interface for host configuration and management. In this release, we have introduced the following new namespaces:
Previous Command
New ESXCLI Command
esxcfg-route/vicfg-route
esxcli network ip route
vicfg-snmp
esxcli system snmp
vicfg-hostops (maintenance mode)
esxcli system maintenanceMode
vicfg-hostops (shutdown/reboot)
esxcli system shutdown
For more details on all the new ESXCLI commands, please take a look at the release notes here. Also stay tuned for upcoming blogs posts in which we will be exploring some of the new ESXCLI 5.1 commands in greater detail!
Also don’t forget to check out our updated VMware ESXi reference poster which has recently been refreshed for ESXi 5.1 and you can download your copy here.
