Chapter 8. Performing ESXCLI and in-guest Commands from PowerCLI
In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:
- Retrieving the ESXCLI object in PowerCLI
- Using the ESXCLI vm namespace to kill a misbehaving VM
- Performing ESXi ping with an ESXCLI object
- Configuring custom storage and path selection policies
- Configuring coredump settings for an ESXi host from PowerCLI
- Executing native commands inside the guest operating system from PowerCLI
Introduction
ESXCLI is the default command-line interface for configuring ESXi hosts. It was introduced with vSphere 5.0 in 2010 and unified command line configuration under a single command with a set of namespaces. ESXCLI can be run interactively on the console of a host (after enabling it in the Troubleshooting ...
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