VMware ESXi: Which ESXCLI commands can be used to view Host Hardware, Storage and Virtual Switch

Access to the ESXi hosts through a putty session or DCUI in order to issue the ESXCLI commands.

To view the time and date on the ESXi host:

 esxcli hardware clock get 

To view the number of CPUs on the host:

esxcli hardware cpu list | less

To view the Storage Configuration of the vSphere Environment issue the following ESXCLI commands:

To view the number of VMFS extents that are available to the host:

esxcli storage vmfs extent list

 
To view the SCSI host bus adapters:

esxcli storage core adapter list

To view the SCSI path statistics:

esxcli storage core path stats get

To view a list of LUNs connected to the ESXi host:

esxcli storage core device list

To view the boot partitions and the datastores that are available to each host:

esxcli storage filesystem list

To view the virtual switch configuration of the vSphere environment issue the following ESXCLI commands: 

To view the IP address of the DNS server:
 

esxcli network ip dns server list

To view the physical NICs:

esxcli network nic list

To view that two standard switches are available to the host:

esxcli network vswitch standard list

To view the available distributed switches:

esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware list | more

To view the standard switch port groups:
 

esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup list

To view the VMkernel interfaces on the host:

esxcli network ip interface list | less

To view the IP address and subnet mask of the VMkernel interfaces on the host:

esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get

To view the default gateway address for the VMkernel interfaces on the host:

esxcli network ip route ipv4 list