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ESX 3.0 Service Console Commands |
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Written by Damian Murdoch
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Tuesday, 11 July 2006 |
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ESX 3.0 Service Console Commands There are a whole bunch of new commands that can be run at the service console in ESX 3.0. Here is a list of the esxcfg commands and what they can do for you. While a majority can be done in VirtualCenter and it is recommended that they are done through VC you have the option to be a command line warrior. This is not always recommended. Read on.
esxcfg-advcfg - Sets advanced VMKernel options
esxcfg-auth - Configure Authentication
esxcfg-boot - Configure boot information, this includes PCI allocations.
esxcfg-dumppart - Show dump partition information, and configure dump partition information.
esxcfg-firewall - Firewall config for the service console
esxcfg-info - Information about the VMKernel, Service console and subsystems.
esxcfg-info - DO NOT RUN MANUALLY - Initialisation for initrd
esxcfg-linuxnet - This command will convert vswif network devices into eth for linux booting and config.
esxcfg-mpath - Configure multipathing
esxcfg-nas - NAS filesystem, management, addition or deletion
esxcfg-rescan - Rescan your SCSI luns.
esxcfg-resgrp - Resource group creation and deletion.
esxcfg-route - VMKernel Nic routing enable or disable.
esxcfg-swscsi - iSCSI software adapter configuration
esxcfg-upgrade - DO NOT RUN MANUALLY - Upgrade esx 2.x to esx 3.0
esxcfg-vmhbadevs - command to create the mapping between Console Operating System device file and vmhba name.
esxcfg-vmknic - Create and configure the VMKernel nics
esxcfg-vswif - Create and configure the vswifs for the Console Operating System.
esxcfg-vswitch - Port groups, and virtual switch creation/configuration. |
