VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release.With this release vSphere CLI also having enhancements and i was trying to under stand what all new enhancement in my 6.7 Lab , ven though i tried with my lab i got reference from one the Blog on these details and it helped me to understand this quickly .
Apart from below available option there will be few additional commands if you are using any custom ISO .
Additional commands available with custom ISO used in HPE hardware
Below the Command List which is having enhancement and new commands , and it is total 62 number
| ESXCLI Component | Number of New Commands |
| Device | 3 |
| Hardware | 6 |
| iSCSI | 1 |
| Network | 14 |
| NVMe | 14 |
| RDMA | 2 |
| Storage | 9 |
| System | 6 |
| vSAN | 7 |
esxcli device
Commands used to manage devices and available options are create, list and delete software devices ,drivers
esxcli hardware cpu cpuid raw
In previous versions only a subset of CPUID fields was available. The new raw command displays all CPUID fields for a given CPU.
esxcli hardware ipmi bmc
Allows configuration of IPMI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) properties. OS name and OS version can be configured.
esxcli hardware power policy
Provides information and configuration options for system power policies.
esxcli iscsi adapter target lun list
Displays iSCSI LUN (Channel-, Target-, LUN numbers and LUN size) information
Here there is no iSCSI luns , so list is empty .
esxcli network ens
A bunch of new commands to configure ens (Enhanced Networking Stack) logical core affinity.
esxcli network nic queue loadbalancer
This command using for displaying the details from installed and loaded NetQueue balancer plugins on physical NICs. Plugins can be enabled or disabled with the plugin set command. NetQueue has the ability of some network adapters to deliver network traffic to the system in multiple receive queues that can be processed separately .
esxcli nvme device
New NVMe device namespace and feature configuration capabilities.
esxcli rdma
This Command using for list all enabled RDMA protocols and delete iser logical devices.
RDMA – Remote direct memory access
ISER – iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
esxcli storage
it is very useful command fro all storage related activities
esxcli storage core device vaai
List the ats, clone, delete and zero VAAI attributes for the devices.
esxcli storage hpp
Commands to display information about devices controlled by the hpp (VMware High Performance Plugin).
esxcli system clock
Display and configure clock phase correction settings. The default positive or negative phase correction is configured to 48 hours (172800 seconds)
system security fips140
Enable or disable FIPS140 mode for rhttpproxy and ssh.vSphere 6.7 uses FIPS 140-2 validated Cryptographic Modules which for example enforces specific secure encryption ciphers.
esxcli vsan
This command using to perform vSAN related operations
esxcli vsan datastore
Addition to above image exploring on datastore commands , it is using to create and configure vSAN datastores. Creating datastores is only allowed if vSAN is enabled on the host and generally , add should be done at cluster level. Because the point is vSAN cluster is across the hosts and vSAN datastores should be in sync with all the hosts .
esxcli vsan debug
There is a new features for debugging vSAN features. It allows to Start/Stop the vSAN Managed Object Browser Service and to perform a host evacuation precheck.
