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date: 2014-04-09
title: VMware CLI on Ubuntu Saucy Salamander
category: linux
featured_image: (https://www.datanalyzers.com/VMware-Data-Recovery.jpg
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The current project (as of this week) has me moving away from Openstack
for a while. For the next couple of months I will be immersing myself in
monitor, metrics and logging. Naturally, this being a shiney new
environment, this involves a significant amount of VMware time.
I have inherited an Icinga install running on Ubuntu Server, so I will
be needing to run CLI commands to create checks. Simply runnning the
installer does not work, as the vmware-cli package is a mixture of 32
and 64 bit commands.
First you need to download the CLI from VMware. How to do that is an
exercise for the reader, as I cannot be bothered to find the link (hint:
it is not hard). Then you need to install a bunch of packages:
sudo apt-get install cpanminus libdata-dump-perl libsoap-lite-perl libclass-methodmaker-perl libxml-libxml-simple-perl libssl-dev libarchive-zip-perl libuuid-perl lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
This includes a bunch of Perl modules for munching through XML, plus
some 32-bit libraries so that all the tools can work.
Finally, you can extract the tarball and install the CLI:
tar xvf VMware-vSphere-CLI-5.5.0-1549297.x86_64.tar.gz
cd vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
I have not tested it, but this will probably be the same process for
Debian (at least Wheezy and Sid).