Commands with an esxcfg Prefix in VMware

For many of the vCLI commands, you might have used scripts with corresponding service console commands starting with an esxcfg prefix to manage ESX 3.x hosts. To facilitate easy migration from ESX/ESXi 3.x to later versions of ESXi, the vCLI package includes a copy of each vicfg- command that uses an esxcfg- prefix.

Important VMware recommends that you use ESXCLI or the vCLI commands with the vicfg prefix. Commands with the esxcfg prefix are available mainly for compatibility reasons and might become obsolete. vCLI esxcfg- commands are equivalent to vicfg- commands, but not completely equivalent to the deprecated esxcfg- service console commands.

Commands with an esxcfg Prefix lists all vCLI commands for which a vCLI command with an esxcfg prefix is available.

Commands with an esxcfg Prefix 

Command with vicfg prefix	Command with esxcfg prefix
vicfg-advcfg	esxcfg-advcfg
vicfg-cfgbackup	esxcfg-cfgbackup
vicfg-dns	esxcfg-dns
vicfg-dumppart	esxcfg-dumppart
vicfg-module	esxcfg-module
vicfg-mpath	esxcfg-mpath
vicfg-nas	esxcfg-nas
vicfg-nics	esxcfg-nics
vicfg-ntp	esxcfg-ntp
vicfg-rescan	esxcfg-rescan
vicfg-route	esxcfg-route
vicfg-scsidevs	esxcfg-scsidevs
vicfg-snmp	esxcfg-snmp
vicfg-syslog	esxcfg-syslog
vicfg-vmknic	esxcfg-vmknic
vicfg-volume	esxcfg-volume
vicfg-vswitch	esxcfg-vswitch