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Thanks, it doesn't fail now, but cannot install due to the following error: Initiated VMware Tools install or upgrade ... Cannot complete operation because VMware Tools is not running in this virtual machine. I would expect it to install the VMware Tools if not present...

Thank you for your response. I tried the suggested in the documentation arguments before posting my question but it didn't work, perhaps I am not doing it the right way: $target_vm->UpgradeTools_Task('/S /v "/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs"'); throws the following exception: Error: Failed to handle message: Undefined subroutine &Unexpected arguments: /S /v "/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs" at (eval 82) line 143         VimService::build_arg_string('ARRAY(0xae34d08)', 'HASH(0xae34c88)') called at (eval 82) line 3033         VimService::UpgradeTools_Task('VimService=HASH(0xb187868)', '_this', 'ManagedObjectReference=HASH(0xa8cb7f8)', '/S /v "/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs"', undef) called at .../VICommon.pm line 1699         ViewBase::invoke('VirtualMachine=HASH(0xb4106c8)', 'UpgradeTools_Task', '/S /v "/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs"', undef) called at ...         VirtualMachineOperations::UpgradeTools_Task('VirtualMachine=HASH(0xb4106c8)', '/S /v "/qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs"') called at ... Anything obvious I miss?

Could you please clarify what you are referring to by 'GuestOps' and 'RunProgramInGuest'? I am looking how to automate VMware Tools installation on Windows virtual machines using vSphere API with Perl SDK. Thanks, YM.

VMware Technical Support confirmed the same issue with ESXi hosts 'managementServerIp' summary property for ESXi servers managed by vCenter Server running on a Windows machine. Next step will be to continue troubleshooting it with SDK Support Team. In a meantime I am going to use the following code to extract vCenter management IP address for Windows based vCenters:     my $settings = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $service_content->setting)->setting;     my $managementServerIp = undef;     foreach my $setting (@$settings) {          if ('VirtualCenter.AutoManagedIPV4' eq $setting->key) {               $managementServerIp = $setting->value;          }     } 

Hi William, Virtual machine IP address is available when VMware Tools is installed and virtual machine guest is running. If guest is not running or virtual machine is powered off, the IP address is unavailable through vSphere API ($vm->guest->ipAddress), but at the same time it is still displayed in the vSphere client. Any idea how vSphere client is making this information available for powered off virtual machines? Thanks, Ymnick

Hi William, My understanding is that after UpgradeTools_Task method has been called, a user needs to log into VM and to complete the installation process, and I am looking how it can be completely silenced so no additional action will be required. Is there something in the 'installerOptions' param to allow that functionality? Unfortunately the API doesn't have a very good explanation of this parameter. http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp#com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.VirtualMachine.html#upgradeTools Thanks, Ymnick

Hi Dmitri, I am also using MAC address as VM identifier because: - VM name may not be unique - IP address may change when VM is restarted for example - MoRef id is relative to the parent, and for the same VM it'll be different depending on how it was discovered. What other VM properties you would recommend as identifier? Thanks, Ymnick