Supported Platforms for vCLI Commands

Platform support for vCLI commands differs depending on the vCenter Server and ESXi version.

You cannot run the vihostupdate command against an ESXi 5.0 or later system.

You cannot run vicfg-syslog --setserver or vicfg-syslog --setport with an ESXi 5.0 or later target.

The following table lists platform support for the different vCLI commands.

Command	ESXi 5.x and 6.x	vCenter Server 5.x and 6.x	ESXi 4.x	ESX 4.x	vCenter Server 4.x
DCLI	No	No	No	No	No
esxcli	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
resxtop	Yes (from Linux)	Yes (from Linux)	Yes (from Linux)	Yes (from Linux)	Yes (from Linux)
svmotion	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
vicfg-advcfg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-authconfig	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-cfgbackup	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
vicfg-dns	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-dumppart	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-hostops	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-ipsec	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
vicfg-iscsi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-module	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-mpath	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-nas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-nics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-ntp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-rescan	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-route	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-scsidevs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-snmp	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
vicfg-syslog	No	No for 5.0 target	Yes	No	Yes
vicfg-user	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
vicfg-vmknic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-volume	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-vswitch	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vifs	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
vihostupdate	Use esxcli software vib instead.	Use esxcli software vib instead.	Yes	Yes	No
vmkfstools	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
vmware-cmd	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vicfg-mpath35	No	No	No	No	No
vihostupdate35	No	No	No	No	No