While most of the interest about vSphere 5 has gone to the main new features we are reading in these days, there are also small enhancements worth a post:

CLI With v5, now local and remote CLI are the same, and esxcfg is dismissed and replaced with esxcli. This is a big improvement for scripting activities, since we do not need anymore two different set of scripts. Esxcli command has an extended namespace, so we can manage almost all the ESXi configurations. Also, command output can be formatted in several ways, like cvs or xml.

ESXi Firewall Completely rewritten and no more iptables based, More >