esxcli and vim-cmd: VMs, datastores, networking and host health.
ESXi host administration over SSH: vim-cmd for the VM lifecycle, esxcli for networking, storage and host state, plus the log and hardware checks you need when vCenter cannot see the host.
Installed with SmartCom Revisited 1.6.1 — there is nothing to download. Open the button panel and it is there.
Each one imports on its own, so a bundle this size never arrives as a single wall of buttons. Hide the sets you do not need, or name the ones a connection uses and the panel shows only those.
They arrive pre-tagged, so you do not have to name them at all:
tag
a connection esxcli
and the matching sets appear on it.
vim-cmd: inventory, power state, snapshots and VMware Tools.
The VM lifecycle from the host itself: list the inventory with its VM IDs, read power and tools state, take and revert snapshots, and power off or kill a guest that vCenter cannot.
Appears on hosts tagged esxcli esxi virtualisation vmkernel vmware vsphere
vSwitches, port groups, vmkernel NICs, datastores and paths.
Host networking and storage: uplinks and vSwitch layout, vmkernel interfaces and their routes, datastore capacity, HBA rescans and multipath state for a lost LUN.
Appears on hosts tagged esxcli esxi virtualisation vmkernel vmware vsphere
Host health, services, logs, maintenance mode and reboot.
Host-level operations: hardware and sensor health, resource use, service control, the vmkernel and hostd logs, and maintenance mode, reboot and shutdown behind explicit confirmations.
Appears on hosts tagged esxcli esxi virtualisation vmkernel vmware vsphere
These commands were written from VMware's documented syntax and checked for structure — not run against live VMware ESXi hardware. Every button shows its full script in the app before you press it. For anything destructive, read that script and try it in a lab first.