Vim-cmd vmsvc/get.summary 8 | grep -i tools Vim-cmd vmsvc/get.summary 12 | grep uptimeSeconds The below command will list you the uptime for the Virtual Machine In some cases, you might want to suspend the Virtual Machine, use the below command. The below command can be used when you want to reset the Virtual Machine. This is not a clean shutdown of the Virtual Machine since we do not have the VMware Tools installed on the above VM, we will try and power OFF the VM. We received the below error message because the VMware Tools is not installed on the VM. In the below, example we will shut down the Guest OS. You can notice, I ran the previous command to get the state of the VM, and it is now powered ON. In this example, we will power ON the TestDSL Virtual Machine. Where 12 is the vmid of the Virtual Machine that we are trying to query. Moving forward, we will look at how to find the Virtual Machine Power state. Vim-cmd solo/registervm /vmfs/volumes/iSCSI-1/TestDSL/TestDSL.vmx I have unregistered the TestDSL VM from the inventory, and we will now see the command to register the VM using vim-cmd. Vmid is the Virtual Machine ID as seen in the first command. The syntax for unregistering the Virtual Machine is as seen below: In the below example, let us go ahead and unregister TestDSL VM from the inventory. List registered Virtual MachinesĪs you can see, I have three VMs registeredvS on this ESXi host.
Now that we know what is vim-cmd and where it is installed, let us see a few examples of how it can be used with Virtual Machines. On ESXi, the vim-cmd is at /bin/vim-cmd, which is actually a symbolic link to a host executable as shown in the following. If you are familiar with vSphere API, you already know VIM is the original name for vSphere management (Virtual Infrastructure Management). Vim-cmd is a vSphere CLI tool available on every ESXi host and can be used to perform various activities in a VMware environment.
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