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VI Toolkit on Cold Clone CD

FYI - it is possible to run VI toolkit for powershell from a cold clone LiveCD.

If anyone has interesting usage ideas let me know

Ulli

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Is there connectivity from the cold clone LiveCD to the VC and/or the ESX hosts ?

If yes, I could see non-intrusive reporting/statistics scripts running from the LiveCD.

With non-intrusive I mean no need to install PowerShell and the VI Toolkit on the "live" servers.


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Yes - from my "customized" Cold Clone CD you can connect to ESX via ViToolKit/ Powershell and ViClient and RemoteCli and fastSCP ...

See

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/139193?tstart=0

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Impressive Smiley Happy

I'll give it a try.

PS: did I understand correctly that one cannot build the ColdClone CD on a Vista box ?


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... one cannot build the ColdClone CD on a Vista box ?

Hu - what makes you come to that ?

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In the forum on your website it says in the Instructions for MOA 2.3 "Vista 32 may work".


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That only means that I don't use Vista - so I can't confirm it works.

A lot of folks build their BartPE with Vista

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