In this post i am not going to write the commands which is used to perform complex Vmware operations like ( esxcfg, vmware-cmd or Vmkfstools). Here are the commands which are used to verify and perform the basic operations in esx console. Since i am from windows background, I found difficult to get this basic information from esx. Here you go with the basic lists.
To find ESX software Version and Build:
# vmware -v
VMware ESXi 4.0.0 build-208167
# vmware -l
VMware ESXi 4.0.0 Update 1
To find the hostname and Ip address
#Hostname -s
Esx1
#hostname-i
192.168.0.150
To see the service status
Service –status-all
To see only running services
Service –status-all
grep running
To see the status of one particular service
service –status-all
grep web
webAccess is stopped
Commands for basic troubleshooting of connectivity issues (Vcenter to esx or Vsphere client to esx)
Service mgmt-vmware restart
service network restart
service vmware-vpxa restart
To add the manual entry to host file
# cd /etc
# nano or VI hosts (enter the manual host ip entried and save it)
To view the text file default gateway and hostname
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
Hostname=esx1.lab.com
gateway=192.168.0.1
gatewaydev=vswif0
IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
Networking_IPV6=noIp
To edit the DNS server IP address
/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.0.10
search lab.com
Will add the few more commands in my next posts. 🙂