This tool lets you drive the vSphere Automation APIs of VMware Cloud Foundation from a shell. Examples include Supervisor VM classes, content libraries, and removing assignments the UI does not permit.
Also called Data Center CLI.
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Terms in this definition
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.
Related terms
- RVC
A support and monitoring console for vCenter that was deprecated in 9.0 and will be withdrawn. Broadcom points people to the vCenter UI, DCLI or PowerCLI as replacements.