Thanks. I guess I need to keep this in mind. It is disappointing that the esxcli commands are not complete and only provide a subset of funtionality needed to manage a VMware environment. Perl is out of the question since we use Python for automation. It would be nice if VMware provided a Python SDK.
In regard to PowerCLI, does this mean that instead of having the VMware VMA guest installed on an ESXi host one should install a Windows guest, and run the PowerCLI from that machine?