Mike Laverick published another very useful guide, this time about command-line environment of VMware Infrastructure 3:
This guide is designed for people who already know ESX 3.x and VC 2.x quite well. Although it starts as a beginners guide initially, it pretty rapidly starts to assume very good knowledge of the system. I would recommend you get to grips with the GUI first, and feel comfortable with Vi-3 before attempting this guide.
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It is not a comprehensive guide to ALL the commands – just the primary ones. I hope to make this guide gradually more comprehensive, and cover all new commands that useful. I’ve deliberately not covered every single esxcfg command – because not all of them are terrifically useful…There are some big topics that I have yet to add to this guide – this includes setting NTP and Active Directory authentication for the Service Console…
Read it here.