ESXi Update 3 enables full remote administration via RCLI
December 10th, 2008 | 
Author: update 12.15.08 – the ESXi 3.5 Update 3 RCLI API was unintentionally opened. The remote administration abilities will be locked down again in the next release. Please see my updated post on this new information.
I wrote the post What’s the difference between free ESXi and licensed ESXi? back in August and it has become one of my most read posts. Since that time VMware has released ESXi Update 3 and some things have changed. For example, the Remote Command Line Interface is now read and write thus enabling complete remote configuration management and administration. There are also a few new GUI based tools available using the ESXi API. I have updated my original post to highlight the new features as well as make some corrections that were pointed out to me by Mike Dipetrillo.
Check out the new notes added to the body of my post from August for more information.
To check out all the changes go to the current release notes on ESXi Update 3 here.
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