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If anything changes, with regards to the material covered in this course, this will be the first place I share updates.
One of the biggest challenges I run into working with ESXi hosts is the lack of a real usable CLI. The remote CLI provided by VMware is clunky at best and makes administration a bit of a pain. I did some poking around and managed to find some interesting CLI commands that work for ESXi. | |
Most of these have no manual page but will output a help message if run by themselves. I would recommend using extreme caution and using a test host to determine the usefulness in your environment before using them on an important system. Also keep in mind that the examples that I give are not the "only" way the commands can be used. | |
To power on a virtual machine from the command line: | |
- Lists all vm's running on hypervisor and provides vmid | |
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | |
In Tools | Options | Keyboard...
CTRL+W
as a Global shortcut for Window.CloseDocumentWindow
CTRL+W
shortcut for Edit.SelectCurrentWord
The caveat to this is if you are used to using CTRL+W
to select the current word. If you do, find another shortcut that works for that.
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