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This article mainly introduces "the access ways and opening methods of VMware ESXi". In the daily operation, I believe that many people have doubts about the access ways and opening methods of VMware ESXi. The editor consulted all kinds of materials and sorted out simple and easy-to-use operation methods. I hope it will be helpful to answer the doubts about "access ways and opening methods of VMware ESXi". Next, please follow the editor to study!

The VMware ESXi host is the foundation of the vSphere software suite. ESXi hosts generally refer to bare metal servers, which are equipped with an operating system similar to Linux. VMware provides a number of access methods, which can be illustrated as follows:

The list is as follows:

DCUI

VSphere Client

VSphere Web Client

VSphere Power CLI

VCLI

VMware Host Client

SSH / ESXi SHELL

CIM (Hardware Management)

1 DCUI

Direct Console User Interface, directly connected user interface

That is, in front of you is the ESXi host, you can see its display, reach its keyboard and mouse, and use these three tools to control and manage the ESXi host. In general, the interface you see is:

2 vSphere Client

This is a combination of HTML 5 + Java Server and requires a browser to access the IP address of vCenter Server Appliance. Java Server is embedded in vCenter Server. Compared with vSphere Web Client, there are still quite a few features missing in this version. It is believed that these missing functions will be completed in the near future.

This version is based on black. On my PC, the IP address of the vCenter Server virtual machine is 172.16.94.130, which can be accessed using the following command:

# firefox https://172.16.94.128/ui & 3 vSphere Web Client

This is a combination of Adobe Flex and Java Server and requires a browser to access the IP address of vCenter Server Appliance. The Flash plug-in must be installed and enabled in the browser to display. Java Server is embedded in vCenter Server. Because of the use of HTML 5, Flash is about to be completely withdrawn from the market, and this version of Flex will appear in vSphere products for the first time. Obviously, this version of the interface, the most functional, we can not abandon it yet.

This version is based on blue. On my PC, the IP address of the vCenter Server virtual machine is 172.16.94.130, which can be accessed using the following command:

# firefox https://172.16.94.128 & 4 PowerCLI

This is software specially developed for Windows. If you use a Windows computer and want to manage vSphere from the command line, you need to install this software on your computer.

5 vCLI-vSphere Command Line

This command set includes esxcli and vicfg system commands, which can be directly logged in to manage ESXi hosts, or "through" vCenter Server to manage ESXi hosts under the latter. On the ESXi host, esxcli already exists, with up to four layers of subcommands, which is quite complete. The VCLI command set needs to be installed separately. Download address is as follows:

# wget https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/get-download?downloadGroup=VS-CLI-670

On the following page, there are documentation links and download links for vcli 6.7.

Https://code.vmware.com/web/tool/6.7/vsphere-cli

6 VMware Host Client

You can see the above interface by accessing the IP address of the ESXi host in the browser. This is a HTML5 web page that can perform various administrative operations on the ESXi host.

7 SSH / ESXi SHELL

Access to SSH / ESXi SHELL can be enabled on the directly connected interface (DCUI) of the ESXi host. Once open, you can use SSH to remotely log in to the ESXi host. The IP address of my ESXi host is 172.16.94.128. After logging in, I look at the kernel and show that it is a kernel called VMkernel. The version number is

# ssh root@172.16.94.128 [root@172:~] unameVMkernel [root@172:~] uname-r6.7.0 [root@172:~] uname-aVMkernel 172.localdomain 6.7.0 # 1 SMP Release build-13006603 Mar 26 2019 13:38:24 x86'64 ESXi8 opens the CIM channel

You need to use the ESXi command line to open this channel as follows:

Esxcli software vib install-n VIBname / / install a software with the name of the software instead of VIBname

Esxcli system wbem set-true / / Open

# esxcli system wbem get Authorization Model: password CIMObject Manager PID: 0 Enabled: false Enabled Running SSLProtocols: Enabled SSLProtocols: Enabled System SSLProtocols: tlsv1.2 Loglevel: warning Port: 5989 Service Location Protocol PID: 0 WSManagement PID: 0 WSManagement Service: true at this point, the study of "access to VMware ESXi and how to activate it" is over. I hope to solve everyone's doubts. The collocation of theory and practice can better help you learn, go and try it! If you want to continue to learn more related knowledge, please continue to follow the website, the editor will continue to work hard to bring you more practical articles!

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