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good news, the tool does work, but I do get an error when it runs /usr/local/vmware/bin# ./vifs --help Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at /usr/share/perl/5.22/VMware/VIComm... See more...
good news, the tool does work, but I do get an error when it runs /usr/local/vmware/bin# ./vifs --help Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at /usr/share/perl/5.22/VMware/VICommon.pm line 2332.       root@vassa-auxiliary:/usr/local/vmware/bin# vifs --help Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at /usr/share/perl/5.22/VMware/VICommon.pm line 2332.  
I think I got there in the end. the installer finally completed with this warning:   The following Perl modules were found on the system but may be too old to work with vSphere CLI: LWP::Proto... See more...
I think I got there in the end. the installer finally completed with this warning:   The following Perl modules were found on the system but may be too old to work with vSphere CLI: LWP::Protocol::https 5.805 or newer  Socket6  0.23 or newer    LWP::Protocol::https 5.805 or newer  Socket6  0.23 or newer 
then install libclass-methodmaker-perl, libuuid-perl, libsocket6-perl, libsocket-perl
then install libcrypt-ssleay-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl
OK, I had to install "make" and "libextutils-makemaker-cpanfile-perl" packages.
sigh, and now I get this problem     CPAN not able to install following Perl modules on the system. These must be  installed manually for use by vSphere CLI:   Devel::StackTrace 1.31 or new... See more...
sigh, and now I get this problem     CPAN not able to install following Perl modules on the system. These must be  installed manually for use by vSphere CLI:   Devel::StackTrace 1.31 or newer  Class::Data::Inheritable 0.08 or newer  Convert::ASN1 0.26 or newer  Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA 0.28 or newer  Crypt::X509 0.51 or newer  Exception::Class 1.37 or newer  UUID::Random 0.04 or newer  Archive::Zip 1.28 or newer  Try::Tiny 0.22 or newer  Class::MethodMaker 2.10 or newer  UUID 0.03 or newer  Data::Dump 1.15 or newer  Socket6  0.23 or newer  IO::Socket::INET6 2.71 or newer  Net::INET6Glue 0.600_1 or newer    CPAN not able to install following Perl modules on the system. These must be  installed manually for use by vSphere CLI:   Devel::StackTrace 1.31 or newer  Class::Data::Inheritable 0.08 or newer  Convert::ASN1 0.26 or newer  Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA 0.28 or newer  Crypt::X509 0.51 or newer  Exception::Class 1.37 or newer  UUID::Random 0.04 or newer  Archive::Zip 1.28 or newer  Try::Tiny 0.22 or newer  Class::MethodMaker 2.10 or newer  UUID 0.03 or newer  Data::Dump 1.15 or newer  Socket6  0.23 or newer  IO::Socket::INET6 2.71 or newer  Net::INET6Glue 0.600_1 or newer 
OK, it seems to be an actual bug in the cpan module.   I got further by installing the package libsoap-lite-perl from the OS repository so the cpan installer didn't try and find it.
I downloaded VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.0.0-2503617.x86_64.tar.gz from here: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCLI600&productId=491   Unfortunately that page doesn't suggest ... See more...
I downloaded VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.0.0-2503617.x86_64.tar.gz from here: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCLI600&productId=491   Unfortunately that page doesn't suggest a specific distro that can run vcli.   I unpacked and ran the installer on an Ubuntu 16.04.1-LTS VM. I installed dependencies, but it complained that some modules were the wrong version:   Module: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Version: 6.96    Module: Module::Build, Version: 0.4205    Module: Net::FTP, Version: 2.77   Module: LWP, Version: 5.837    I told it to continue and it installed a load of stuff from CPAN, but got stuck at SOAP::Lite and never progressed - I left it for a good hour.   So I looked at a Red Hat EL7.2 machine and its version of those perl modules was much older; I thought that RHEL7.2 would be an obvious choice as a platform for this. Obviously not.   Please can anyone help who has installed this and had it running? thanks   Module: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Version: 6.96  Module: Module::Build, Version: 0.4205  Module: Net::FTP, Version: 2.77  Module: LWP, Version: 5.837 
p.s.  https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCLI600&productId=491
there's definitely a vssphere 6 CLI download.   I've been trying to install it on ubuntu 16.04.1, but it hangs trying to cpan-install SOAP::Lite I suspect I need to be running an older linu... See more...
there's definitely a vssphere 6 CLI download.   I've been trying to install it on ubuntu 16.04.1, but it hangs trying to cpan-install SOAP::Lite I suspect I need to be running an older linux distro. Unfortunately VMware don't say what the best version of Linux for this is.
I ended up booting ubuntu server in rescue mode and using “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=65536 count=65536” to zero out the disks, I couldn’t persuade vsphere/vcenter to understand that I wanted... See more...
I ended up booting ubuntu server in rescue mode and using “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=65536 count=65536” to zero out the disks, I couldn’t persuade vsphere/vcenter to understand that I wanted to reuse the disks for something else.