ESXI Over SSH Cheatsheet

Recently, I had to do some stuff on an ESXI-machine from a Linux machine. However the ESXI-version was so old that you needed the vSphere Client to modify it, and I never really got that working. Luckily you can do quite much through ssh. So I thought I’d write down the commands I still remember. ## Write this to get all available commands vim-cmd ## Virtual Machine commands vim-cmd vmsvc ## Show VMs with some stats vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms ## Show power status of VM vim-cmd vmsvc/power....

March 12, 2021  |  🏷️esxi