vSphere CLI U1 broke on Windows 7

[DSeaman]

I installed the vSphere CLI U1 package on my Windows 7 x64 computer. No prior version of CLI was present. I then tried to run the vihostupdate.pl script and got:

perl.exe ordinal not found

The ordinal 2821 could not be located in the dynamic link library LIBEAY32.DLL

I tried de-installing, re-installing, and logging off/on. The vSphere U1 client is on my PC as well and works like a charm. This PC was freshly loaded with W7 X64 a couple of weeks ago. No prior versions of any VMware products were on the laptop. VMware Workstation 7 is on the laptop too, and works fine.

This is clearly a perl error. Ideas on how to resolve?

[Rubeck]

Have you checked to see if libeay32.dll exists in multiple folders? If so check for conflicting PATH statements to these folders...

Im running the vSphere RCLI on a Win7 32bit.... The only VMware app installed prior to thís was the vSphere client...

/Rubeck

[DSeaman]

Yes there's about 8 different versions/sizes/locations of that DLL. All put there by VMware. Quite a DLL mess.

[Rubeck]

What happens if you replace this .dll in various dirs. with the one from the RCLI dir?

/Rubeck