Useful Networking Commands In Vmware ESX CLI

Posted on by Paul McSharry
The VI Client is excellent, however when you cannot connect to the ESX host,  its time to go to the CLI.
A few useful commands shown below;
Network Card information: ifconfig
Display the network cards availible in ESX: esxcfg-nics -l
Display the network card linked to service console: esxcfg-vswitch -l
Unlink Vmnic from vswitch esxcfg-vswitch -U vmnic0 vSwitch0  
link a vmnic to vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch0
Change the Vlan ID of the console port in ESX: esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 15 -p “Service Console” (where 15 is the Vlan ID)