ESXCLI error no such options

[GlassPencil22]

Hi,

I am trying to run this following command on one of my host from putty

esxcli --server [ESXi-SERVER] --username [USER] software vib list

but I keep getting this below error?

esxcli: error: no such option: --server

can someone point out what am I doing wrong?

[IRIX201110141]

If youre already login into ESXi you can call esxcli directly and it always talks to "localhost" and i never saw that esxcli have remote capabilities. If you execute "esxcli" without a argument you automaticly get a list of all namespaces and such parameter with "-para arg" comes at the end.

esxcli software vib list

Maybe you mixed it up with powercli (powershell) commandlet or some other version of esxcli?

Regards,
Joerg