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  Hello

  first of all, sorry for my English...

  I'm new here and I have a question for VMWARE vSphere Hypervisor.

  I have donwloaded VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) and installed the server component and the Client.

  Now, I want to use my client "vSphere command-line Interface (vCLI)", but I can't find it on my client.

  Can someone help me?

  Greetings

  Markus

  Hello

  I think you should download the bundle separately. Please download the version of your esxi version.

  VMware vSphere 5: Private Cloud Computing, server and data center virtualization

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• Annex report of Vsphere vcenter - command line

  Hello

  I have 2xVmware ESX 4 hosts managed by V-host. I intend to get statistics and report of the host ESX command line to schedule/automate these report.

  Of the graphical inetrface of the vSphere client, can I export the required reports (i.e. Performance report). However, can you please help me find a way to get the report and stats on the similar to that in the GUI (Performance report) ESX host, but the command line?

  I installed the PowerCLI, but I wasn't able to find scripts that export these reports. Your help is very appreciated.

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  Can be a little more specific?

  Looking for a report on performance data? What experts do you want to realize?

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• Disk partedUtil utility command-line on ESXi disk partitioning

  Hi all

  I created the partition by using the utiliy of command-line partedUtil on ESXI in the face of error below:

  
  

  • error: "Invalid guid (0xfb). Contains non hexadecimal numbers
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  Can you advise me how to solve the problem of the partition.

  Hi Prashant.

  VMFS data warehouses can be created and deleted using the vSphere client connected to an ESXi/ESX host or vCenter Server. It is not necessary to manually create partitions by using the command line utility. For more information, see the Configuration Guide for your version of ESXi/ESX storage management.

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  You can use the partedUtil command line utility to directly manipulate local and remote tables of partitions on the disks of SAN on ESX and ESXi.

  The partedUtil command-line is only supported for ESXi 5.x disk partitioning. The command-line utility fdisk does not work with LUN formatted with VMFS5.

  Note: This article is from the principle that a console session is available to the host ESX or ESXi, you're familiar with console management concepts and the disk, and you did backups appropriate before proceeding. For more information, see:

  Unable to connect to a host ESX using Secure Shell (SSH) (1003807) or

  Using the Mode of Support Tech in ESXi 4.1 and 5.x ESXi (1017910).

  If you are not sure of any step, contact the VMware Support.

  For more information on the re-creation of a missing VMFS partition table using PartedUtil see: re-creating a VMFS datastore partition missing in vSphere 5 (2046610)

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• steps to upgrade host ESXi ESX5.1 to 5.5 via command line

  Dear team,

  I m planning to improve my esxi5.1 to 5.5 via command line, need your help how to make the same success.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  I found that it is useful for my case.

  http://www.vmwarearena.com/2013/10/vSphere-55-upgrade-to-ESXi-55-via.html

• How can I register a virtual machine in the command line?

  I want to automate the registration of virtual machines in my VMWare Fusion.

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  Thanks in advance.

  There are two main methods you can interact with the Virtual Machines outside user of VMware Fusion, the VIX API and vmrun interface and with the registration of these two commands are not supported with VMware Fusion (or VMware Workstation.* (* Non-exclussive VM)}.)  Recording controls are used primarily with vSphere.  VMware Server also supported recording orders.

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• Definition of vlan ID on vmk0 using powercli or SSH command line

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• PowerCLI script does not run from the SRM command line

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  Hello

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• Deploy the model via command line

  Hi all,

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• Create a command-line script VM install

  I was looking for a way to the creation of vm of the script command line.  Our environment is mostly RedHat 5.4 and esx 4.0.  We wanted to be able to spin off the virtual machine from the command line, and then deploy the operating system with kickstart.  I came across the following script, but still get this error when I try to run it:

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  #Script version 1.1

  #Author David E. Hart

  #Date 10-05-06

  #

  #--------+

  1. Goal |

  #------+---------------------------------------------------

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  3. Location of the Virtual Machine/VMFS/volumes/storage1/ScriptedVM =

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  #

  #----------------------------------------+

  #Custom variable section for editing.

  #--------------------------------------+-------------------

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  #--------------------------------------------------------------

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  >

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• ESXi 4.0 command line upgrade to ESXi 4.0 U1

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