{"id":3747,"date":"2022-08-05T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2022-08-05T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:38:15","slug":"vmware-esx-cli-cheatsheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2022\/08\/vmware-esx-cli-cheatsheet\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware, ESX | CLI Cheatsheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quick guide \/ cheatsheet with various ESXCLI commands specifically for ESX 7.0+<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong>Enter maintenance mode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Exit maintenance mode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable false<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Restart management agents &#8220;ESXi host daemon&#8221; and &#8220;vCenter Agent&#8221; services:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\/etc\/init.d\/hostd restart<\/pre>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\/etc\/init.d\/vpxa restart<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Restart management agents &#8220;All&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">services.sh restart<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Reboot Host:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">esxcli system shutdown reboot --reason Upgrades<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Reference:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/1003490\">Restarting the Management agents in ESXi (1003490) (vmware.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick guide \/ cheatsheet with various ESXCLI commands specifically for ESX 7.0+ Enter maintenance mode: esxcli system maintenanceMode set &#8211;enable true Exit maintenance mode: esxcli system maintenanceMode set &#8211;enable false Restart management agents &#8220;ESXi host daemon&#8221; and &#8220;vCenter Agent&#8221; services: \/etc\/init.d\/hostd restart \/etc\/init.d\/vpxa restart Restart management agents &#8220;All&#8221;: services.sh restart Reboot Host: esxcli system shutdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,10,33],"tags":[55,56,57],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide","category-tools","category-vmware","tag-esx","tag-vmware","tag-vsphere"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-Yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}