The CLI command line tool esxcfg-advcfg can be used to query and modify advanced options for a wide variety of different aspects of the ESX 3/4 VMkernel, such as resources, networking, storage and global settings. Note that this page is written for ESX 4 and not all commands may work with ESX 3.

The esxcfg-addons CLI command is used to enable and disable addons in ESX 4.

Usage: esxcfg-addons [action] [parameter(s)]