How to run mbralign on esxi with vsphere CLI

I have a few virtual machines with disks misaligned, each of them can be found on ESXi, I also vSphere CLI installed on my laptop.

Thus, it is possible to run mbralign using vSphere CLI, since there is no console on ESXi. If so, what would be the command.

Not possible, vCLI aims for vSphere management regarding the host/vms/etc., that has nothing to do with running the tools custom within the classic ESX or ESXi. As far as I know, the mbralign is not supported on ESXi, if this is the case, it is most likely must be run within the Busybox unsupported console.

Take a look to this blog post by Duncan about the alignment of the VM - http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/04/08/aligning-your-vms-virtual-harddisks/

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