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Trupti123
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‎02-28-2013 10:30 PM

Need to check whether ESXi is installed

Hey i've done PXE  boot of ESXi on specified bare metal.Now i need to check through powershell/powerCLI function whether it is installed or not?How cn i do this..?

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sparrowangelste
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‎02-28-2013 11:16 PM

your pxe ip is probably different from your range of static ips, do that is one way of checking

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elgreco81
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‎02-28-2013 11:49 PM

Hi,

Is that ESXi registered with any vCenter?

If so, you should connect to your vCenter and simply list the Hosts.

Connect-VIServer vCenterServerIP

Get-VMHost

Regards,

elgreco81

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Trupti123
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‎03-01-2013 12:55 AM

All this is in same n/w..bt Bare metal on which m deploying ESXi is at some distance from ma plce..nd whenever it'l reboot it will reinstall ESX..

In this case what i need to is:

check whether ESXi is installed or not..and also need to find i/p of host using mac address

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Trupti123
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‎03-01-2013 12:57 AM

still it's not registered ..need sum other way..

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Dave_Mishchenko
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Immortal
‎03-01-2013 01:16 AM

With a typical install the default management (vmkernel) port will use the MAC address of the physical NIC identified as vmnic0.  If you have that information and can scan the network then you shoud be able to find the host.

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