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Command-Line Management in vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 for Service Console Users
esxcfg-dumppart
WhenusingtheESXiShell,youcanconfigureyoursystemtosavecoredumpstoalocalpartitionortousethe
ESXiDumpCollectorandsavecoredumpstoaprespecifiedlocalorremotepartition.
 Useesxcli coredump partitioncommandstoconfigurealocaldumppartition.
 InstallESXiDumpCollectortosupportsendingcoredumpstoaremotehostandrunesxcli coredump
networkcommandstoconfiguretheremotedumppartition.
Thefollowingtableliststheesxcfg-dumppartcommandoptionsandcorrespondingESXCLIcommands.
-D|--del-user-var Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-U|--user-var --option=<str> Nameoftheuservariabletouseforwhen
retrievingandsettinguservariables.
-A|--add-option
<name>
Nolongersupported.
ThisoptionwasusedtoaddCIMoptions.Use
theCIMSDKinstead.
-T|--add-type Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-E|--add-desc Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-F|--add-default Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-N|--add-min Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-M|--add-max Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-H|--add-hidden
<val>
Addingordeletinguservariablesisnolonger
supported.
-L|--del-option
<name>
Nolonger
supported.
ThisoptionwasusedtoaddCIMoptions.Use
theCIMSDKinstead.
-V|--has-option
<name>
Useesxcli system settings advanced
listtolistalloptionsinstead.
TheESXCLIcommandliststhevalueofthe
VMkerneladvancedconfigurationoptions.
Theoutputincludesthecurrentsettingfor
eachoption.
-r|--restore Nolongeravailable.Internaluseonlyin
previousversions.
IMPORTANTYoucannolongeruseesxcfg-dumpparttoenablecoredumps.UseESXCLIinstead.
Table 9. esxcfg-advcfg Replacement Commands (Continued)
esxcfg-advcfg option ESXCLI Command Description