VMware ESXI ESXI 6.0 Installation guide

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Contents

AboutThisBook 5

1 InstallingSDKforPerl 7

InstallationOverview 7

OverviewofLinuxInstallationProcess 8

InstallingtheSDKforPerlPackageonRedHatEnterpriseLinux 10

InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforRedHatEnterpriseLinux 10

InstallingtheSDKforPerlPackageonRHEL(NoInternetAccess) 10

InstallingSDKforPerlonLinuxSystemswithInternetAccess 11

InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforLinux

SystemswithInternetAccess 11

InstallingtheSDKforPerlPackageonaLinuxSystemwithInternetAccess 12

UninstallingtheSDKforPerlPackageonLinux 13

InstallingandUninstallingSDKforPerlonWindows 13

UninstallingtheSDKforPerlPackageonWindows 14

EnablingCertificateVerification 14

DeployingvMA 14

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Thisbook,vSphereSDKforPerlInstallationGuide,providesinformationaboutinstallingthevSphereSDKfor

Perl.VMware

®

providesseveralSDKproducts,eachofwhichtargetsdifferentdevelopercommunitiesand

platforms.ThisguideisforadministratorswhowanttorunvSphereSDKforPerlscriptsonvSpheresystems

andfordeveloperswhowanttodevelopvSphereSDKforPerlscriptsforvSpheresystems.

Toviewthecurrentversionof

thisbookaswellasallVMwaredocumentation,goto

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

Revision History

Thisbookisrevisedwitheachreleaseoftheproductorwhennecessary.Arevisedversioncancontainminor

ormajorchanges.Table 1summarizesthesignificantchangesineachversionofthisbook.

About This Book

Table 1. Revision History

Revision Description

11MAR2015 vSphere6.0Release.Removedthechapter“InstallingvSphereSDKforPerlfromSourceCode”.

VMwareisnolongertestingthisprocess.

19SEP2013 vSphere5.5versionoftheproduct.Nochangesinthisrelease.

10SEP2012 vSphere5.1versionoftheproduct.Nochangesinthisrelease.

15MAR2012 vSphere5.0Update1versionofthe

product.OnRHEL,theinstallernolongerusesCPANbutproceeds

likethevSphere4.1installer.AllotherLinuxinstallersproceedlikethevSphere5.0installer.This

documentreflectsthechangedbehavior.

22AUG2011 vSphere5.0versionoftheproduct.OnLinux,installerstopsifrequiredsoftwareisnotavailable.The

Linuxinstaller

requiresInternetaccessandinstallsotherprerequisitesthroughCPAN.

13JUL2010 vSphere4.1versionoftheproduct.OnLinux,installerdoesnotrunifrequiredprerequisitesoftwareis

notavailable.LinuxinstallerinstallsrecommendedPerlmodulesifnoversioniscurrentlyinstalled.

LinuxinstallernolongeroverwritesexistingPerlmodules.

Allinformationabout

thevSphereManagementAssistantcannowbefoundinthevSphereManagement

AssistantGuide.

21MAY2009 vSphere4.0versionoftheproduct.UsesthevSphereManagementAssistantasthevSphereSDKforPerl

appliance.TheinstallernowincludesbothvSphereSDKforPerlandthevSphereCommand‐Line

Interface(vSphereCLI).

Added

credentialstorelibraryandsampletothevSphereSDK.

25JUL2008 UpdateforVIPerlToolkit1.6.Addednewoptionsforinvocation,changedsupportedplatforms.

10JAN2008 UpdateforVIPerlToolkit1.5.Includesmiscellaneousdocumentationchanges.

vSphereSDKforPerlnolongeravailableonsourceforge.

VirtualappliancenowinOFVformat.

15JAN2007 First

versionofthevSphereSDKforPerl1.0documentation.

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Intended Audience

ThisbookisintendedforanyonewhoinstallsthevSphereSDKforPerl.Allusersmustunderstandhowto

modifyandrunPerlscriptsontheplatformoftheirchoice.UserswhowanttoinstalltheSDKforPerlfrom

sourcecodemustalsounderstandthesourcecodeinstallationprocess.

VMware Technical Publications Glossary

VMwareTechnicalPublicationsprovidesaglossaryoftermsthatmightbeunfamiliartoyou.Fordefinitions

oftermsastheyareusedinVMwaretechnicaldocumentation,gotohttp://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

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ofotherVMwarebooks,gotohttp://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

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YoucaninstallavSphereSDKforPerlpackageonaLinuxoraMicrosoftWindowssystem,ordeploythe

vSphereManagementAssistant(vMA)onanESXihost.

Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:

 “InstallationOverview”onpage 15

 “OverviewofLinuxInstallationProcess”onpage 16

 “InstallingthevCLIPackageonRedHatEnterpriseLinux”onpage 18

 “InstallingvCLIonLinuxSystemswithInternetAccess”onpage 19

 “UninstallingthevCLIPackageonLinux”onpage 21

 “InstallingandUninstallingvCLIonWindows”onpage 21

 “UninstallingthevCLIPackageonWindows”onpage 22

 “EnablingCertificateVerification”onpage 22

 “DeployingvMA”onpage 22

Installation Overview

YoucaninstallavSphereSDKforPerlpackageonasupportedplatformordeploythevMAvirtualmachine

onanESXihost.

 InstallablePackage.InstallavSphereSDKforPerlpackageonaphysicalorvirtualmachine.See

“InstallingthevCLIPackageonRedHatEnterpriseLinux”onpage 18,“InstallingvCLIonLinuxSystems

withInternetAccess”onpage 19,and“InstallingandUninstallingvCLIonWindows”onpage 21.

ThevSphereSDKforPerl

installerinstallsbothvSphereSDKforPerlandvCLIbecausemanyvCLI

commandsrunontopofthevSphereSDKforPerl.Thecontentsoftheinstallerpackagediffersfor

differentplatforms.

Installing vSphere SDK for Perl

Platform Installation Process

Windows TheinstallationpackageincludesvCLI,vSphereSDKforPerl,andprerequisitePerl

modules.

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Afterinstallation,youcanrunvCLIcommandsandvSphereSDKforPerlutilityapplicationsfromthe

operatingsystemcommandline.Eachtimeyourunacommand,youspecifythetargetserverconnection

optionsdirectlyorindirectly.YoucanalsowritescriptsandmanageyourvSphereenvironmentusing

thosescripts.

 vSphereManagementAssistant(vMA).DeployvMA,avirtualmachinethatadministratorscanuseto

runscriptsthatmanagevSphere,onanESXihost.vMAincludesvCLI,vSphereSDKforPerl,andother

prepackagedsoftwareinaLinuxenvironment.

vMAsupportsnoninteractivelogin.IfyouestablishanESXihostasatarget

server,youcanrunvCLIhost

managementcommandsandvSphereSDKforPerlcommandsagainstthatserverwithoutadditional

authentication.IfyouestablishavCenterServ ersystemasatargetserver,youcanrunmostvSphereSDK

forPerlcommandsagainstallESXisystemsthatservermanageswithoutadditionalauthentication.

See

“DeployingvMA”onpage 22.

Overview of Linux Installation Process

TheinstallationscriptforvSphereSDKforPerlissupportedontheLinuxdistributionsthatarelistedinthe

ReleaseNotes.

ThevSphereSDKforPerlpackageinstallerinstallsthevCLIscriptsandthevSphereSDKforPerl.The

installationproceedsasfollows.

1Theinstallercheckswhetherthefollowingrequiredprerequisite

packagesareinstalledonthesystem:

2Iftherequiredsoftwareisfound,theinstallerproceeds.Otherwise,theinstallerstopsandinformsyou

thatyoumustinstallthesoftware.See“InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforRedHatEnterprise

Linux”onpage 18and“InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforLinuxSystemswithInternet

Access”

onpage 19forinstructions.

3TheinstallercheckswhetherthefollowingPerlmodulesarefound,andwhetherthecorrectversionis

installed.

RedHatEnterprise

Linux

Youmustinstallrequiredsoftware.See“InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforRed

HatEnterpriseLinux”onpage 18.

TheinstallerforRHELpromptsyouwhetheryouwanttoinstallothermissingmodules

fromtheInternetorfromthepackage.

 IfyouhaveInternetaccess,youcanhavetheinstallerdownloadPerlmodulesfrom

CPAN.

 TheinstallercaninsteadinstallPerlmodulesthatitdoesnotfindonyoursystemfrom

theinstallerpackage.

SLESandUbuntu YoumustinstallrequiredsoftwareandyoumusthaveInternetaccess.See“Installing

RequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforLinuxSystemswithInternetAccess”onpage 19.

TheinstallerdownloadsotherPerlmodules

fromCPAN.

Platform Installation Process

Perl Perlversion5.8.8orversion5.10mustbeinstalledonyoursystem.

OpenSSL ThevSphereSDKforPerlrequiresSSLbecausemostconnectionsbetweenthesystemonwhichyou

runthecommandandthetargetvSpheresystemareencryptedwithSSL.

TheOpenSSLlibrary(libssl-develpackage)isnotincludedinthedefault

Linuxdistribution.See

“InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforRedHatEnterpriseLinux”onpage 18and“Installing

RequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforLinuxSystemswithInternetAccess”onpage 19.

LibXML2 UsedforXMLparsing.ThevCLIclientrequires2.6.26orhigherversion.Ifyouhaveanolderversion

installed,pleaseupgradeto2.6.26or

higher.

Thelibxml2packageisnotincludedinthedefaultLinuxdistribution.See“InstallingRequired

PrerequisiteSoftwareforRedHatEnterpriseLinux”onpage 18and“InstallingRequiredPrerequisite

SoftwareforLinuxSystemswithInternetAccess”onpage 19.

uuid Includedinuuid-develforSLES11andine2fsprogs-develforotherLinuxplatforms.Required

by

theUUIDPerlmodule.

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 Crypt‐SSLeay‐0.55(0.55‐0.9.7or0.55‐0.9.8)

 IO‐Compress‐Base‐2.037

 Compress‐Zlib‐2.037

 IO‐Compress‐Zlib‐2.037

 Compress‐Raw‐Zlib‐2.037

 Archive‐Zip‐1.28

 Data‐Dumper‐2.121

 XML‐LibXML‐1.63

 libwww‐perl‐5.805

 LWP‐Protocol‐https‐6.02

 XML‐LibXML‐Common‐0.13

 XML‐NamespaceSupport‐1.09

 XML‐SAX‐0.16

 Data‐Dump‐1.15

 URI‐1.37

 UUID‐0.03

 SOAP‐Lite‐0.710.08

 HTML‐Parser‐3.60

 version‐0.78

 Class‐MethodMaker‐2.10

 JSON‐PP‐2.27203

 Devel‐StackTrace‐131

 Class‐Data‐Inheritable‐0.08

 Convert‐ASN1‐0.26

 Cyrpt‐OpenSSL‐RSA‐0.28

 Crypt‐X509‐0.51

 Exception‐Class‐1.37

 MIME‐Base64‐3.14

 UUID‐Random‐0.04

 Socket6‐023

 IO‐Socket‐INET6‐2.71

 Net‐INET6Glue‐0.600_1

Earlierversionsoflibwww‐perlincludetheLWP‐Protocol‐httpsmodule.Morerecentversionsof

libwww‐perldonotincludetheLWP‐Protocol‐httpsmoduleandyouhavetoinstallthatmodule.

NOTEIfyouintendtorunvCLIcommandswithSSLcertification,be suretocheckthatLWP::UserAgent

6.00orlaterisinstalled.Theinstallerdoesnotcheckthismodule,andearlierversionsdonotworkwith

SSL.

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4TheinstallerproceedsdependingontheLinuxdistribution.

5AfterallrequiredsoftwareandallprerequisitePerlmodulesareinstalled,youcaninstallvSphereSDK

forPerl.See“InstallingthevCLIPackageonRedHatEnterpriseLinux”onpage 18and“Installingthe

vCLIPackageonaLinuxSystemwithInternetAccess”on

page 20.

IfapreviousversionofvCLI,RemoteCLI,orvSphereSDKforPerlisinstalledonyoursystem,andyouinstall

vSphereSDKforPerlinadifferentdirectory,youmustresetthePATHenvironmentvariable.Youcandoso

beforeoraftertheinstallation,usingthecommandappropriate

foryourdistributionandshell(setenv,

export,andsoon).Ifyoudonotresetthepath,thesystemmightstilllookforexecutablesintheoldlocation.

Installing the vSphere SDK for Perl Package on Red Hat Enterprise

Linux

vCLIissupportedonRedHatEnterpriseLinuxversionsthatarelistedintheReleaseNotes.OnRHEL,the

vSphereSDKforPerlinstallerpromptsyouwhetheryouwanttoinstallrequiredPerlmodulesfromthe

installationpackageorfromCPAN.Followthesestepstoinstallthesoftware.

1Installrequired

prerequisitesoftware.See“InstallingRequiredPrerequisiteSoftwareforRedHat

EnterpriseLinux”onpage 18.

2Whenprompted,directtheinstallertoinstalladditionalprerequisitesfromtheinstallationpackage(see

“InstallingthevCLIPackageonRHEL(NoInternetAccess)”onpage 18)orfromCPAN(see“Installing

thevCLIPackageonaLinuxSystem

withInternetAccess”onpage 20).

Installing Required Prerequisite Software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

PrerequisitesoftwareonRHELincludesrequiredsoftwareandrecommendedPerlmodules.

Linux distribution Installer behavior

RHEL(NoInternet

access)

OnRHEL,theinstallerallowsyoutoinstallPerlmoduleswithCPANifInternetaccessis

available.

IfnoInternetaccessisavailable,andamoduleisnotcurrentlyonyoursystem,theinstaller

installsit.Ifadifferentversionofamoduleisfound,theinstaller

doesnotinstallitand

proceedswithinstallation.Attheendoftheinstallationprocess,theinstallerinformsyou

iftheversiononthesystemdoesnotmatchtherecommendedversion,andrecommends

thatyouinstalltheversionthatvSphereSDKforPerlwastestedwith.Youcaninstallthe

modulesusingthepackageinstallerforyourplatform,theinstallationCD,orCPAN.

Note:TheinstallerdoesnotoverwriteexistingversionsofrecommendedPerlmodules. 

Youmustexplicitlyupdatethosemodulesyourself.

AllLinux

distributions

(Internetaccess)

TheinstallerproceedsdependingonwhetherthePerlmodulesarefound.

 IfarecommendedPerlmoduleisnotfoundatall,theinstallerinstallsitusingCPAN.

YoumustmeettheinstallationprerequisitesortheinstallercannotinstallthePerl

modulesandstops.See“InstallingvCLIonLinuxSystemswithInternetAccess”on

page 19.

 Ifalowerversionofarecommendedmoduleisfound,theinstallerdoesnotinstalla

differentversionfromCPANandproceedswithinstallation.Aftercompleting

installation,theinstallerdisplaysamessagethattheversiononthesystemdoesnot

matchtherecommendedversion,andrecommendsthatyouinstalltheversion



vSphereSDKforPerlwastestedwith.Youcaninstallthemodulesusingthepackage

installerforyourplatform,theinstallationCD,orCPAN.

 Ifahigherversionofarecommendedmoduleisfound,theinstallerproceedswith

installationanddoesnotdisplayamessageafterinstallation.

Note:TheinstallerdoesnotoverwriteexistingversionsofrecommendedPerlmodules. 

Youmustexplicitlyupdatethosemodulesyourself.

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Required Software

Ifrequiredsoftwareisnotinstalled,thevCLIinstallerstops.Youcaninstallprerequisitesusingyum,theRHEL

packageinstaller(recommended),orfromtheinstallationDVD,asfollows:

Recommended Perl Modules

Whentheinstallerfinishes,itmightissueawarningthattheversionofamoduleinstalledonyoursystemdoes

notmatch

theversionwithwhichvCLIwastested.InstallthatversionusingyumorCPANtoresolvetheissue.

See“OverviewofLinuxInstallationProcess”onpage 16foracompletelistofmodules.

Installing the vSphere SDK for Perl Package on RHEL (No Internet Access)

BeforeyouinstallvSphereSDKforPerl,youmustremoveallpreviousversionsofthatsoftware.Theprocess

differsfromsimplyuninstallingvSphereSDKforPerl.

To remove previous versions of vSphere SDK for Perl

1Runtheuninstallscript,forexample,ifyouinstalledvSphereSDKforPerlinthedefaultlocation,runthe

followingcommand:

/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl

2 DeleteexistingversionsofvSphere-CLI.xxxx.tar.gzanddeletethevmware-vsphere-cli-distrib

directory.

To install vSphere SDK for Perl on RHEL

1UntarthevSphereSDKforPerlbinarythatyoudownloaded.

tar –zxvf VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.X.X-XXXXX.XXXX.x86_64.tar.gz

Avmware-vsphere-vcli-distribdirectoryiscreated.

2Loginassuperuserandruntheinstaller:

/<location>/sudo vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/vmware-install.pl

3Toacceptthelicenseterms,typeyesandpressEnter.

4ToinstallPerlmoduleslocally,typeyesandpressEnter.

5Specifyaninstallationdirectory,orpressEntertoacceptthedefault,whichis/usr/bin.

Acompleteinstallationprocesshasthefollowingresult:

 Asuccessmessageappears.

 Theinstallerlistsdifferentversionnumbersforrequiredmodules(ifany).

 Thepromptreturnstotheshellprompt.

Ifyouacceptedthedefaultsduringinstallation,youcanfindtheinstalledsoftwareinthefollowinglocations:

 vCLIscripts–/usr/bin

 vSphereSDKforPerlutilityapplications–/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps

 vSphereSDKforPerlsamplescripts–/usr/share/doc/vmware-vcli/samples

SeethevSphereSDKforPerldocumentationforareferencetoallutilityapplications.

RHEL6.332bit

yum install e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel

yum install perl-XML-LibXML

RHEL6.364bit

yum install e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel

yum install glibc.i686

yum install perl-XML-LibXML

NOTETheinstallerdoesnotoverwriteexistingPerlmodules.

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AfteryouinstallthevSphereSDKforPerl,youcantesttheinstallationbyrunningacommandfromthe

commandprompt.See“RunningHostManagementCommandsfromaLinuxSystem”onpage 37.

Installing vSphere SDK for Perl on Linux Systems with Internet Access

BeforeyoucaninstallthevSphereSDKforPerlpackageonaLinuxsystemwithInternetaccess,thatsystem

mustmeetfollowingprerequisites.

 Internetaccess.YoumusthaveInternetaccesswhenyouruntheinstallerbecausetheinstallerusesCPAN

toinstallprerequisitePerlmodules.

 DevelopmentToolsandLibraries.YoumustinstalltheDevelopmentToolsandLibrariesfortheLinux

platformthatyouareworkingwithbeforeyouinstallvSphereSDKforPerlandprerequisitePerl

modules.

 Proxysettings.IfyoursystemisusingaproxyforInternetaccess,youmustsetthehttp://andftp://

proxies,asfollows:

export http_proxy=<proxy_server>:port

export ftp_proxy=<proxy_server>:port

Installing Required Prerequisite Software for Linux Systems with Internet

Access

Ifrequiredprerequisitesoftwareisnotinstalled,theinstallerstopsandrequeststhatyouinstallit.Installation

ofprerequisitesoftwaredependsontheplatformthatyouareusing.SeetheReleaseNotesforthesupported

versionsofeachLinuxplatform.

Table 2-1. Installing Required Prerequisite Software

Platform Installation

RHEL6.332bit FindtherequiredmodulesontheinstallationDVD,oruseyumtoinstallthem.

yum install e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel

yum install perl-XML-LibXML

RHEL6.364bit FindtherequiredmodulesontheinstallationDVD,oruseyumtoinstallthem.

yum install e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel

yum install glibc.i686

yum install perl-XML-LibXML

SUSEEnterprise InstalltheprerequisitepackagesfromtheSLESSDKDVD.WhenyouinserttheDVD,itoffersto

autorun.CanceltheautorundialogboxandusetheyastpackageinstallertoinstallOpenSSLor

othermissingrequiredpackages.

 SLES1164bit.yast -i openssl-devel libuuid-devel libuuid-devel-32bit

 SLES1132bit.yast -i openssl-devel libuuid-devel

SomeusersmightbeauthorizedtousetheNovellCustomerCenteranduseyasttoretrieve

missingpackagesfromthere.

Ubuntu 1.ConnecttotheInternet.

2.Updatethelocalrepositoryoflibrariesfromaterminalwindow.

sudo apt-get update

3.Installtherequiredlibrariesfromaterminalwindow.



 32bit.sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc uuid uuid-dev perl libssl-dev

perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl

 64bit.sudo apt-get install ia32-libs build-essential gcc uuid uuid-dev perl

libssl-dev perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl

ForUbuntu10.0464bit,theresxtopand

ESXCLIcommandsdonotworkifyoudonotinstall

the32‐bitcompatibilitylibraries.

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Installing the vSphere SDK for Perl Package on a Linux System with Internet

Access

InstallthevSphereSDKforPerlpackageandrunacommandtoverifyinstallationwassuccessful.

To install vSphere SDK for Perl

1Loginasroot.

2UntarthevSphereSDKforPerlbinarythatyoudownloaded.

tar –zxvf VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.X.X-XXXXX.i386.tar.gz

Avmware-vsphere-vcli-distribdirectoryiscreated.

3 (Optional)IfyourserverusesaproxytoaccesstheInternet,andifyourhttp://andftp://proxywere

notsetwhenyouinstalledprerequisitesoftware,setthemnow.

export http_proxy=<proxy_server>:port

export ftp_proxy=<proxy_server>:port

4Runtheinstaller:

sudo vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/vmware-install.pl

5Toacceptthelicenseterms,typeyesandpressEnter.

TheinstallerconnectstoCPANandinstallsprerequisitesoftware.Establishingaconnectionmighttakea

longtime.

6OnRHEL,whenpromptedtoinstallprecompiledPerlmodules,typenoandpressEntertouseCPAN

TheinstallerconnectstoCPANandinstallsprerequisite

software.Establishingaconnectionmighttakea

longtime.

7Specifyaninstallationdirectory,orpressEntertoacceptthedefault,whichis/usr/bin.

Acompleteinstallationprocesshasthefollowingresult:

 Asuccessmessageappears.

 Theinstallerlistsdifferentversionnumbersforrequiredmodules(ifany).

 Thepromptreturnstotheshellprompt.

Ifyouacceptedthedefaultsduringinstallation,youcanfindtheinstalledsoftwareinthefollowinglocations:

 vCLIscripts–/usr/bin

 vSphereSDKforPerlutilityapplications–/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps

 vSphereSDKforPerlsamplescripts–/usr/share/doc/vmware-vcli/samples

SeethevSphereSDKforPerldocumentationforareferencetoallutilityapplications.AfteryouinstallvSphere

SDKforPerl,youcantesttheinstallationbyrunningavCLIcommandorvSphereSDKforPerlutility

applicationfromthecommandprompt.

Uninstalling the vSphere SDK for Perl Package on Linux

YoucanuseascriptincludedintheinstallationtouninstallthevSphereSDKforPerlpackage.

To uninstall vSphere SDK for Perl on Linux

1 ChangetothedirectorywhereyouinstalledvSphereSDKforPerl(defaultis/usr/bin).

2Runthevmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl script.

ThecommanduninstallsvCLIandthevSphereSDKforPerl.

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Installing and Uninstalling vSphere SDK for Perl on Windows

BeforeyoucanrunvSphereSDKforPerlcommandsfromyourWindowssystem,youmustinstallthevSphere

SDKforPerlpackageandtesttheinstallationbyrunningacommand.

ThevSphereSDKforPerlinstallationpackageforWindowsincludestheActivePerlruntimefromActiveState

SoftwareandrequiredPerlmodulesand

libraries.ThevSphereSDKforPerlissupportedontheWindows

platformsthatarelistedintheReleaseNotes.

To install the vSphere SDK for Perl Package on Windows

1 DownloadthevSphereSDKforPerlWindowsinstallerpackage.

YoucanfindtheinstallerintheAutomationToolsandSDKssectionoftheDrivers&Toolstabofthe

vSphere

downloadpage.

2Starttheinstaller.

3 (Optional)IfpromptedtoremoveolderversionsofvSphereSDKforPerlorvCLI,youcaneitheraccept

orcanceltheinstallation,andinstallthevSphereSDKforPerlpackageonadifferentsystem.

4ClickNextintheWelcomepage.

5ToinstallthevSphereSDKforPerlinanondefaultdirectory,clickChangeandselectthedirectory.

ThedefaultlocationisC:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI.

6ClickNext.

7ClickInstalltoproceedwiththeinstallation.

Theinstallationmighttakeseveralminutestocomplete.

8 Rebootyoursystem.

Withoutreboot,pathsettingsmightnotbecorrectonyourWindowsplatform.

Uninstalling the vSphere SDK for Perl Package on Windows

YoucanuninstallthevSphereSDKforPerlpackageasyouwouldotherprograms.

To uninstall vSphere SDK for Perl on Windows

1FindtheoptionforaddingandremovingprogramsontheWindowsoperatingsystemyouareusing.

2Inthepanelthatappears,selectVMwarevSphereCLI,andclickRemove.

3ClickYeswhenprompted.

Thesystemuninstalls

thevSphereSDKforPerl,thevCLI,andallprerequisitesoftware.

Enabling Certificate Verification

ThevSphereSDKforPerlandvCLIuseCrypt::SSLEaytosupportcertificateverification.Crypt::SSLEay

allowsverificationofcertificatessignedbyaCertificateAuthority(CA)ifyousetthefollowingtwovariables:

 HTTPS_CA_FILE–TheCAfile.

 HTTPS_CA_DIR–TheCAdirectory.

MPORTANTIfyouwanttorunESXCLIcommandsincludedinvCLIfromaWindowssystem,youmusthave

theVisualC++2008redistributablefor32bitinstalledonthatsystem.Findvcredist_x86.exeforVisualC++

2008andinstallitonyourWindowssystem.

MPORTANTTheinstallerreplacesboththevSphereSDKforPerlandvCLI.Tokeepanolderversion,

installthispackageonadifferentsystem.

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SeetheCrypt::SSLEaydocumentationfordetailsonsetup.

Deploying vMA

Asanalternativetoapackageinstallation,youcandeployvMAonanESXihostandrunvCLIcommandsfrom

there.vMAisavirtualmachineyoucanusetorunscriptstomanageESXisystems.vMAincludesaLinux

environment,vCLI,andotherprepackagedsoftware.

SettingupvMAconsistsof

afewtasks.ThevSphereManagementAssistantGuidediscusseseachtaskindetail.

1DeployvMAtoanESXisystemthatmeetsthehardwareprerequisites.

SeethevSphereManagementAssistantGuideforprerequisitesanddeploymentdetails.

2ConfigurevMA.

WhenyoubootvMA,youmustspecifythefollowingrequiredconfigurationinformationwhen

prompted:

 Networkinformation(thedefaultisoftenacceptable)

 HostnameforvMA.

 Passwordforthevi‐adminuser.Thevi‐adminuserhassuperuserprivilegesonvMA.Youcannotlog

intovMAastherootuser.

3 (Optional)AddavCenterServersystemoroneormoreESXisystemsastargets.YouconfigurevMAfor

ActiveDirectoryauthenticationandcanthenaddESXi

andvCenterServersystemstovMAwithout

havingtostorepasswordsinthevMAcredentialstore.SeethevSphereManagementAssistantGuide.

CAUTIONIfthetwoenvironmentvariablesHTTPS_CA_FILEandHTTPS_CA_DIRaresetincorrectlyorifa

problemwiththecertificateexists,vCLIcommandsdonotcomplete,anddonotprinterrororwarning

messages.UseHTTPS_DEBUGfortroubleshootingbeforerunningvCLIcommands.

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