Authenticating Through vCenter Server and vCenter Single Sign-On

For all ESXi hosts that are managed by a vCenter Server system that is integrated with vCenter Single Sign-On, you can authenticate directly to the vCenter Server system, or you can authorize to vCenter Server through vCenter Single Sign-On.

The best practice is to authenticate through vCenter Single Sign-On.

You use the following options.

• server - Specifies the vCenter Server system that manages the host.
• vihost - Specifies the ESXi host.

Example

esxcli --server <vc_hostname_or_IP> --vihost <esxi_hostname_or_IP> --username <user_name> --password <password> hardware clock get