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• vSphere CLI - perl.exe - Unable to locate component

  Hello

  I installed the vSphere 4.1 CLI on Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x 32) and when I try to connect using the vicfg - nas.pl it gives error below. W2K3 x 32-bit is supported according to the vSphere CLI document. I don't know where he's going wrong then.

  
  Perl.exe - Unable to locate component

  This application has failed to start because libxml2.dll is not found. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

  
  Any suggetions would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Installation of Perl is not in the Path environment variable. To the Path environment variable, add the following location:

  I think that the installation of Perl is not in the Path environment variable.

  C:\Program VMware VI CLI\Perl\bin remote

  -Right click on my computer
  -Select properties in the context menu
  -Select advanced system settings
  -Click the Environment Variables button
  -Select the path in the System Variables and click on change
  -Add the following line «;» "C:\Program VMware VI remote CLI\Perl\bin" to the Path variable

  Restart the command prompt for the path access is taken into account

• Help to install vSphere CLI on Linux 64-bit

  Hello!

  I try to get the vSphere CLI working on my Fedora 13 64-bit box and I'm running into a problem when I try to execute commands after installation.  I downloaded the 64-bit for the vSphere CLI 4.0 U2, unpacked tar.gz and run the installation script which filled perfectly.  It installs all the right binary files under/usr/bin.  (Although when installing it asks me to replace a bunch of files in/usr/lib64/perl5/and I just accept the defaults)

  When I try to execute a command, such as vicfg-vswitch, I get the following error.

  usr: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

  Essentially, I can't even use the vCLI.

  Nobody knows what the error means or have a good guide on installing the vCLI for Linux?  VMware documentation don't give me information on how to handle these errors.

  Take a look at this thread for your answer - VI Perl Toolkit and Fedora 9. Failure

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• vSphere cli - script lack power

  Hello world

  I'm new to vsphere cli and need help to obtain power information that we need. I am trying to generate report by cluster vmware tools and I need additional information of the virtual machines namely, contact, created by and created the fields exported to my csv. Here is where I am at this time. I have the annotation of wrenching, however I do not know the commands script/right pull-out contact/createdby and created on the fields of a VM. I hope someone can help. Thank you.

  Notice-EEG - ViewType virtualmachine - SearchRoot (get-cluster 'test') user.user-filter @{'Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus ' =' guestToolsNeedUpgrade'} | Select Name,@{N='tools worm '; E={$_. Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}},@{N='Tools State; E={$_. Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}},@{N='Guest ' OS. E={$_. Config.GuestFullName}},@{N='VM. Notes; E={$_. Summary.Config.Annotation}} | Export-Csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture-path C:\test\test1.csv

  Give it a try like this

  Get-View -ViewType virtualmachine -SearchRoot (get-cluster '1Mike').id -Filter @{'Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus'='guestToolsNeedUpgrade'} |Select Name,@{N='tools ver';E={$_.Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}},  @{N='Tools Status';E={$_.Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}},  @{N='Guest OS';E={$_.Config.GuestFullName}},  @{N='VM Notes';E={$_.Summary.Config.Annotation}},  @{N="Contact";E={    $key = $_.AvailableField | where {$_.Name -eq "Contact"} | Select -ExpandProperty Key    $_.CustomValue | where {$_.Key -eq $key} | Select -ExpandProperty Value}} |Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture -Path C:\test\test1.csv
  

• vSphere CLI: error: unknown command

  This could be as simple as just something I miss, but since I do not use the CLI much at all, I thought I'd ask just. I can connect to the CLI, but any command I use the host responds just with either "< command > not found" or when you use vSphere CLI "error: unknown command or namespace.

  I even tried connecting through my server vCenter Server and then go out to the host by using the command - vihost, that works, but I still get the error that the command I try to use it recognized.

  vSphere CLI

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\VMware vSphere CLI > esxcli - Server < servername > - username < my nickname-> password < password > vicfg - snmp.pl - Server < servername > public - c

  Error: Unknown command or namespace vicfg - snmp.pl

  
  

  You must run this command from the prompt (not hull as shown above) vSphere CLI commands and make sure the bin is in your path. Otherwise that run from here;

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin> vicfg - snmp.pl - Server - username - password - show

• What are the steps in vSphere CLI?

  I downloaded and installed vSphere CLI but I get the following error

  'Connect' is not recognized as internal or external, command an executable program or batch file.

  The main difference between the vSphere CLI and PowerCLI is that vSphere CLI is Perl based and PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. Both are great tools and can be used for the automation of your vSphere environment. Which tool is best for you depends on your experience with Perl or PowerShell.

  You can also combine these two tools I described in my blog How to run scripts perl CLI of PowerCLI VMware vSphere.

• version of vSphere CLI

  Hello. Now I use 4.0u1 ESXi, and I want to upgrade to ESXi 4.1u1.

  What version vSphere CLI should I use to upgrade?

  Currently, I'm using ESXi 4.0u1, so I think I should use vSphere CLI 4.0.

  Or I try to update to ESXi 4.1u1, so I think I should use vSphere 4.1 CLI.

  Am I comfusing which version should I use.

  Kind regards

  Kazuya

  Just use vSphere 4.1 CLI

  It is backward compatible with the older versions of ESX

  See: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/vcli41/vsp4_41_vcli_relnotes.html

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• Where to download vSphere CLI remote for ESXi5

  http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0#drivers_tools

  Can someone tell me where to download vSphere CLI remote? I don't see this download site.

  Hello

  Check if this help http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/

  http://www.VMware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VCLI50

  Good luck

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• Don't vSphere CLI use the FTP mode?

  Does anyone know what vSphere CLI uses to connect to a hypervisor?  I suspect it is FTP, but I can't get confirmation on this.

  I think that ports it communicates via are similar to the vSphere-SSH Client or HTTPS and maybe vmware 901or 902 ports

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• How to find if a scsi disk can be used as a ROW or only use not vsphere CLI.

  Hi, I want to know if the SCSI disk can be used as RDM and a remote computer running vSphere CLI.

  I tried to use 'vicfg-scsidevs - l', but it doesn't have the required information list

  ===============================================

  Here is sample out put

  MPX.vmhba0:C0:T1:l0

  Device type: disk

  Size: MB 69459

  Full name: disk space from VMware (mpx.vmhba0:C0:T1:L0)

  Plugin: NMP

  Device console: /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T1:L0

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T1:L0

  Seller: VMware model: Block device Revis: 1.0

  SCSI level: 2 is nickname: status:

  : RDM Capable is removable:

  Other names:

  VML.0000000000766d686261303a313a30

  empty fields "Is Capable RDM" here.

  =======================================================

  When I executed the command 'esxcfg-scsidevs - l' on an ESX Server, he gave me the necessary info.

  MPX.vmhba0:C0:t0:l0

  Device type: Direct access

  Size: 138919 MB

  Full name: disk space from VMware (mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0)

  Plugin: NMP

  The console device: / dev/cciss/c0d0

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0

  Seller: VMware model: Block device Revis: 1.0

  : SCSI 2 is Pseudo: false status: on

  : RDM Capable false is removable: false

  Is Local: true

  Other names:

  VML.0000000000766d686261303a303a30

  So is it possible for vSphere CLI through which we can tell if the SCSI disk device can be used as ROW or NOT?

  and what parameter defined as capable of RDM?

  Thank you

  Chandra Sekhar P.

  Hi Chandra,

  In order to get the SCSI LUNS that can serve as RDM, you must use the QueryConfigTarget method. This method is defined on EnvironmentBrowser. You need to recover some EnvironmentBrowser object ComputeResource the HostSystem where the virtual machine is created. The configTarget.ScsiDisk returned after the method call contains the logic unit number information that is capable of RDM.

  I hope this helps!

  Neha

• VSphere CLI no longer connect

  I just got my VCenter server running, created my datacenter and the cluster.  I added my hosts and must say that it is really cool.  Got a quick question though.  I can connect is no longer in ESXi 4 using the CLI interface to make changes.  I get the login, but it fails "to connect to the local host failed."  I have ensure that the server, that I tried to connect is in maintenance mode.  Is what is happening because Vcenter now manages the ESXi hosts?  I have to install the Vsphere CLI on the Vcenter Server?  Any suggestions?

  Yes,--param server is required, otherwise by default it resort 'localhost', which is probably not what you want.

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• SVmotion - thick disk of source-&gt; svmotion-&gt; should become a thin disk in vSphere CLI power

  Hello

  I tried to perform a SVmotion using vSphere CLI power and it works fine.

  But when executing the SVmotion, I also want to mention the DISC FORMAT' i.e. ' thin... ". While the SVmotion I want the drive to be THIN DISK PROVIDED.

  Move-VM - VM (VM-Get-name litbuildvm) - Datastore & lt; name of store data & gt;

  Can someone help him, now in the above command, the source vmdk is THICK implemented after SVmotion remains thick.

  But I want to make the disk vmdk source which is THICK to THIN after SVmotion in vSphere CLI...

  Help, please

  Deepak

  Yes, that's correct.

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• 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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• Cannot add the vmkernel nic: a specified parameter was not correct. vSphere CLI + ESXi 4

  Hello. I try to add vmknic with frames in my distributed virtual switch.

  I read the vSphere command-line Interface Installation and reference Guideguide:

  "vicfg-vmknic - a-i DHCP"vmk5"

  I see the error message:

  Cannot add the vmkernel nic: a specified parameter was not correct.

  Vim.Host.VirtualNic.Specification.Ip

  What's wrong?

  I tried all the combinations of parameters with the same result.

  Ok! I've found a workaround.

  Since adding a vmkernel remote interface doesn't seem to work with DVS, I simply created one on a standard vSwitch and it then migrated to the DVS. And voila: the value 9000 MTU migrated intact with her! Here are the steps I followed:

  1. put the ESX host into maintenance mode - evacuate VMs manually if necessary

  2 remove the VMKernel iSCSI/NFS to the DVS interface

  3. create a standard virtual switch with no physical cards. He has no need to be a VMKernel VM Networking switch is fine. Make a note of the name you gave to the PortGroup created on the new vSwitch.

  4 using the remote control line, add the new interface vkernel specifying an appropriate jumbo MTU (9000) and the PortGroup on the standard new vSwitch. For example:

  esxcfg - vmknic.pl - Server

  If you get 3 answers, everything works. If you get failures, something has gone wrong. Go back and check that the interface is configured correctly using the command list esxcfg - vmknic.pl-.

  Enjoy!

  M

• Running the command using the vSphere CLI

  I installed the vSPhere CLI on my workstation but can't seem to execute commands.

  My ESX hosts are managed by a host vCenter.

  C:\Program VMware vSphere CLI\bin & gt; esxcli - 10.15.0.11 - user name of server localadmin - password XXXXXXX swiscsi add - n vmk0 d vmhba32

  Makes me:

  Connect to 10.15.0.11 failed: authorization to perform this operation was refused.

  You use an account that has permission to update the configuration of ESX host?  Of the error, it looks like a permission problem.

  In addition, your syntax can be disabled, try this:

  [VI Toolkit] C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin> .\esxcli.exe --serer esxi40-1.primp-industries.com --username root swiscsi nic add --nic vmk1 --adapter vmhba33
  Enter password:
  

  (it worked on our development configuration)

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