Trouble with VIhostupdate.pl....... Installing 3wa...

ABNothing · ‎10-31-2010

Hey all,

I am trying to follow LSI KB instructions on how to setup this 9750 Raid SATA/SAS Card

There having me use the instruction:

perl vihostupdate.pl -server x.x.x.x -username root -password "" -b c:\offline-bundle.zip -i

Now I change everything to fit my configuration and it responds back with:

This Operation is NOT supported on 4.1.0 platform.

Can some one shed some light on this issue? I feel like I am so close to getting this up and running.

Thanks,

Jeff

lamw · ‎10-31-2010

I'm assuming you're using vCLI 4.1 on either a Linux/Windows or vMA? Is your ESXi 4.1 licensed or are you using the free version?

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ABNothing · ‎10-31-2010

vcli 4.1 on windows ESXi / free

lamw · ‎10-31-2010

Ah, that is the problem, you're using free ESXi license. To use any of the remote CLI's, you'll need to have a licensed version of ESXi. Generally you would see the following error message:

Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
Fault detail: RestrictedVersionFault