connecting to vsphere center

[fbar171]

i am new to powercli

i am trying to connect to vsphere center from my xp sp3 PC, i installed powershell and vsphere cli on my pc

when i am giving command as esxcli ipaddress

it is asking for username and password after entering credentials it is giving error as " connect to local host failed."

the command looks like

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>esxcli servername

Enter username: c-fqureshi

Enter password:

Connect to localhost failed

[ScottBentley]

You need to specify the server you're connecting to using --server option your command should say

esxcli --server ipaddress

[fbar171]

Hi scott,

Good Morning,

i hope you had a moring coffee.

it is saying esxcli can only be used with version 4.0 or newer servers

and even i cannot connect to ESX servers from my PC using same command.

i tried to connect after adding the command --server

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>esxcli --server 192.168.1.3

Enter username: c-fqureshi

Enter password:

esxcli can only be used with version 4.0 or newer servers

[ScottBentley]

Are you connecting to vCenter or directly to a host?

As far as I know esxcli is not able to connect to a vCenter server just directly to a host, in order to manage a vCenter server you may want to use PowerCLI with the Connect-VIServer command.

Scott

[fbar171]

i am trying to connect to VC from vsphere cli only

i am running this command from the path of cli you can see the full path of the command

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>esxcli --server 192.168.1.3

Enter username: c-fqureshi

Enter password:

esxcli can only be used with version 4.0 or newer servers

[ScottBentley]

In your example is 192.168.1.3 an ESX / ESXi host server, or a vCenter server?

You will be abple to use esxcli commands only against a host ESX server but not against a vCenter server