VMWare ESX 4 (Commmands)

Configuring networking from the ESX service console command line

To configure networking from the ESX service console command line:

1. Ensure the network adapter you want to use is currently connected with the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-nics –l
   
   The output appears similar to:
   
   Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex Description
   vmnic0 06:00.00 tg3 Up 1000Mbps Full Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet
   vmnic1 07:00.00 tg3 Up 1000Mbps Full Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet
   
   In the Link column, Up indicates that the network adapter is available and functioning.

2. List the current virtual switches with the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswitch –l
   
   The output appears similar to:
   
   Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports Uplinks
   vSwitch0 32 3 32 vmnic0
   
   PortGroup Name Internal ID VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
   VM Network portgroup2 0 0 vmnic0
   
   In the example output, there exists a virtual machine network named VM Network with no Service Console portgroup. For illustration, the proceeding steps show you how to create a new virtual switch and place the service console port group on it.
3. Create a new virtual switch with the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswitch –a vSwitch1
4. Create the Service Console portgroup on this new virtual switch:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswitch –A “Service Console” vSwitch1
   
   Because there is a space in the name (Service Console), you must enclose it in quotation marks.
   
   Note: To create Service Consoles one at time, you may need to delete all previous settings. For more information, see Recreating Service Console Networking from the command line (1000266).
5. Up-link vmnic1 to the new virtual switch with the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswitch –L vmnic1 vSwitch1
6. If you need to assign a VLAN, use the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v -p “Service Console” vSwitch0
   
   where is the VLAN number. A zero here specifies no VLAN.
7. Verify the new virtual switch configuration with the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswitch –l
   
   The output appears similar to:
   
   Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports Uplinks
   vSwitch0 32 3 32 vmnic0
   
   PortGroup Name Internal ID VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
   Service Console portgroup5 0 1 vmnic0
   
   Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports Uplinks
   vSwitch1 64 1 64 vmnic1
   
   PortGroup Name Internal ID VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
   Service Console portgroup14 0 1 vmnic1
8. Create the vswif (Service Console) interface. For example, run the command:
   
   [root@server root]# esxcfg-vswif –a vswif0 –i 192.168.1.10 –n 255.255.255.0 –p “Service Console”
   [‘Vnic’ warning] Generated New Mac address, 00:50:xx:xx:xx:xx for vswif0
   
   Nothing to flush.
9. Verify the configuration with the command:
   
   [root@esx]# esxcfg-vswif –l
   Name Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast Enabled DHCP
   v swif0 Service Console 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.255 true false
10. Verify the networking configuration on the ESX host. See Verifying ESX host networking configuration on the service console (1003796) .

Recreating Service Console networking from the command line

Note: ESX 4.0 Update 2 introduces a new tool that simplifies the process of creating or restoring networking in the ESX service console. For more information, see Configuring or restoring networking from the ESX service console using console-setup (1022078).

To delete and recreate a virtual switch and Service Console from the command line:

Note: On your system the vswif, vmnic, vSwitch numbers and network settings are different. 

1. Run the following command to list the name of the vswif adapter:
   
   # esxcfg-vswif -l
2. Run the following command to delete the vswif adapter:
   
   # esxcfg-vswif --del vswif0
3. Run the following command to list the name of the vSwitch:
   
   # esxcfg-vswitch -l
4. Run the following command to delete the vSwitch:
   
   # esxcfg-vswitch -d vSwitch0
5. Run the following command to create the vSwitch:
   
   # esxcfg-vswitch -a vSwitch0
6. Run the following commands to create default port groups for vSwitch:
   
   # esxcfg-vswitch -A "VM Network" vSwitch0
   # esxcfg-vswitch -A "Service Console" vSwitch0
7. Run the following command to create the vswif adapter:
   
   # esxcfg-vswif --add --portgroup "Service Console" --ip=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn --netmask=255.255.255.0 vswif0 
8. Run the following command to verify that the settings in the network file are correct:
   
               # cat /etc/sysconfig/network
   
   NETWORKING=yes
   GATEWAYDEV=vswif0
   HOSTNAME=host.domain.com
   GATEWAY=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
9. Run the following commands to list all of the network adapters and associate a vmnic which has a link status of up:
   
   # esxcfg-nics -l
   # esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch0
10. Run the following command to verify that the vmnic is associated with the vSwitch:
    
    # esxcfg-vswitch -l
11. Ping an IP address to check for network connectivity. If the ping fails, remove the previous vmnic from the vSwitch and try another adapter that has a link status of up.
    
    # esxcfg-vswitch -U vmnic1 vSwitch0
    # esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic2 vSwitch0
12. Run the following command to change the vlan ID of a vSwitch:
    
    # esxcfg-vswitch -p "VM Network 1" -v 10 vSwitch0
13. If you make any manual changes to /etc/sysconfig/network, run the following command to restart the network service:
    
    # service network restart

For more information, see Configuring a VLAN on a portgroup (1003825).

For information on vNetwork Distributed Switches, see Configuring vSwitch or vNetwork Distributed Switch from the command line in ESX 4.0 (1008127).

Check All your VMs and ID

vim-cmd    vmsvc/getallvms  

Start The VM
vim-cmd    vmsvc/power.on   48

Stop The VM
vim-cmd    vmsvc/power.off   48

Restart The VM
vim-cmd    vmsvc/power.restart  48

If you need to restart your VM on a daily basis I would edit and add the cron job in:
vi   var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

List all the commands under 
vim-cmd vmsvc

List the vms & file path
vmware-cmd -l

Start the VM Machine
vmware-cmd "/vmfs/volumes/4c16a0ec-2c7ebe2a-6ad5-0011s8azz71c/OpenSolaris 2009.06/OpenSolaris 2009.06.vmx" start

Power-On or Off Status
vmware-cmd -l | sed '/^$/d' |  while read VMX ; do STATE=$(vmware-cmd  "${VMX}" getstate | awk ' { print $3 } ') ;  echo "${VMX}" = "${STATE}" ; done


Check Available Network Cards

esxcfg-nics -l

vm-support -x 

vm-support  -X   100 

vmware-cmd.pl   -H 192.168.1.1 -l zawhtet

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ps -auxwww | grep 100

kill  -9  100