21 ESXi advanced and kernel settings William Lam recommends for labs and consumer hardware, each with the exact esxcli command, the version it was written for, what changed since, and a deep link to the vDan ESXi settings explorer.
iSCSI port binding with esxcli: list, add and remove network portals, what --force does, and how to clear active iSCSI sessions safely.
The ESXi shell commands admins really run over SSH, grouped by task: esxcli, vim-cmd, vmkping, esxtop and agent restarts, checked for ESXi 8 and ESX 9.
ESX 9.0 adds 27 ESXCLI commands and drops 11 vs 8.0 U3 (SLP, WBEM/CIM); 9.1 adds 27 more incl. memtier. Full tables from Broadcom's reference.
