{"id":2954,"date":"2015-10-29T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.melberi.com\/uncategorized\/useful-command-line-options-for-vmware-management-console"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","slug":"useful-vmware-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/vmware\/useful-vmware-command-line","title":{"rendered":"Useful command Line Options for VMWare Management console"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Useful command Line Options for VMWare Management console<\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n

Useful command Line Options:<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

1) List path and names of registered VM on the present host<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd -l
\n\/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx
\n\/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName2\/VMName2.vmx<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n2) Get the power status of VM<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx getstate
\ngetstate() = on
\nor
\ngetstate() = off
\ngetstate() = suspended
\ngetstate() = stuck<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n3) Restart VM<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx reset trysoft<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n4) Start VM<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx start<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n5) Shutdown VM<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx stop trysoft
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx stop hard<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n6) Suspend VM<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx suspend<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n7) Check VM snapshot<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx hassnapshot<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n8) Create VM Snapshot<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx createsnapshot name description quiesce memory<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n9) Revert to Previous snapshot<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx revertsnapshot<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n10) Remove previously created snapshots<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx removesnapshots<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n11) Register VM<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd -s register \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n 12) Unregister VM <\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd -s unregister \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n13) Answer<\/b>
\n[root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx answer<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Useful command Line Options for VMWare Management console Useful command Line Options: 1) List path and names of registered VM on the present host [root@vesxsrv ~]#vmware-cmd -l \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName\/VMName.vmx \/vmfs\/volume\/vmfslabel\/VMName2\/VMName2.vmx 2)… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[1628],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}