ESXCLI Commands in vSphere 6.7

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 ipmi bmc get
esxcli hardware ipmi bmc set

esxcli hardware power policy
Provides information and configuration options for system power policies.

esxcli hardware power policy choices list
esxcli hardware power policy get
esxcli hardware power policy set

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 ens lcore add
esxcli network ens lcore affinity get
esxcli network ens lcore affinity set
esxcli network ens lcore list
esxcli network ens lcore remove
esxcli network ens lcore switch add
esxcli network ens lcore switch get
esxcli network ens lcore switch remove
esxcli network ens maxLcores get
esxcli network ens maxLcores

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 network nic queue loadbalancer plugin list
esxcli network nic queue loadbalancer plugin set
esxcli network nic queue loadbalancer state list
esxcli network nic queue loadbalancer state set

esxcli nvme device

New NVMe device namespace and feature configuration capabilities.

esxcli nvme device controller list
esxcli nvme device feature cap
esxcli nvme device feature apst get
esxcli nvme device feature hi get
esxcli nvme device feature hmb get
esxcli nvme device feature kat get
esxcli nvme device feature kat set
esxcli nvme device feature lba get
esxcli nvme device feature spm get
esxcli nvme device feature spm set
esxcli nvme device namespace attach
esxcli nvme device namespace create
esxcli nvme device namespace delete
esxcli nvme device namespace detach

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 core device vaai ats list
esxcli storage core device vaai clone list
esxcli storage core device vaai delete list
esxcli storage core device vaai zero list

esxcli storage hpp

Commands to display information about devices controlled by the hpp (VMware High Performance Plugin).

esxcli storage hpp device list
esxcli storage hpp device set
esxcli storage hpp device usermarkedssd list
esxcli storage hpp path list

esxcli system clock
Display and configure clock phase correction settings. The default positive or negative phase correction is configured to 48 hours (172800 seconds)

esxcli system clock get
esxcli system clock set

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 system security fips140 rhttpproxy get
esxcli system security fips140 rhttpproxy set
esxcli system security fips140 ssh get
esxcli system security fips140 ssh set

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 datastore add
esxcli vsan datastore clear
esxcli vsan datastore list
esxcli vsan datastore remove

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.