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vSphere Command-Line Interface Documentation

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The vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI) command set allows you to run common system administration commands against ESX/ESXi systems from any machine with network access to those systems. You can also run most vSphere CLI commands against a vCenter Server system and target any ESX/ESXi system that vCenter Server system manages. vSphere CLI commands are especially useful for ESXi hosts because ESXi does not include a service console.

vSphere CLI commands run on top of the vSphere SDK for Perl. The vSphere CLI installer installs both the vSphere CLI and vSphere SDK for Perl.

vSphere CLI 4.1

Released 13 Jul 2010 | Downloads

Documentation Resources:

vSphere SDK for Perl Documentation
vSphere Management Assistant documentation

vSphere CLI 4.0 Update 1 and later

vSphere CLI 4.0 Update 2 | Released 10 Jun 2010 | Downloads
vSphere CLI 4.0 Update 1 | Released 19 Nov 2009 | Downloads

Documentation Resources:

Release Notes
vSphere Command-Line Interface manual

vSphere SDK for Perl Documentation
vSphere Management Assistant documentation

vSphere CLI 4.0

Released 21 May 2009 | Downloads

Documentation Resources:

Release Notes
vSphere Command-Line Interface manual

vSphere SDK for Perl Documentation
vSphere Management Assistant documentation

For information about the Remote Command-Line Interface for VMware Infrastructure 3, see the Remote Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide for that release.

You can learn more about vSphere CLI and participate in discussions in the vSphere CLI Community.