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I'm looking at the vCLI's release notes, I'm assuming you're trying to install the latest version which should be vCLI 4.0u1?
It looks like the only supported OSes for vCLI are the following:
You can install vSphere CLI on the following Windows platforms:
Windows XP SP2 32 bit*
Windows XP SP2 64 bit*
Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 32 bit*
Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 64 bit*
You can install vSphere CLI on the following Linux platforms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 (64 bit)*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 (32 bit)*
SUSE Enterprise Server 10 SP1 32 bit*
Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit*
Windows Server 2003 does not look like it's supported from their release notes. When you attempt to install any of these exe's from VMware (e.g. vCLI,vSphere SDK for Perl, PowerCLI,etc) there should be an installer log that is stored in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp and there should be a log file named vminst.log, see if you can do a search for it and figure the location on your server. You should probably only have one or a few. Delete the logs, re-install and ensure they are being generated and take a look at the errors. I'm assuming there are some packages that it expects that is not available by default on Windows Server 2003 system and since it's not on the list of supported OSes, might be hard to get support from VMware if you were to file an SR.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".
What OS version are you trying to install the vCLI on? I remember seeing an old post about this problem where you had to logout and log back in for the changes to take effect. You could also uninstall and try to reinstall vCLI and issue a reboot and see if you still run into the issue.
=========================================================================
William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".
I'm looking at the vCLI's release notes, I'm assuming you're trying to install the latest version which should be vCLI 4.0u1?
It looks like the only supported OSes for vCLI are the following:
You can install vSphere CLI on the following Windows platforms:
Windows XP SP2 32 bit*
Windows XP SP2 64 bit*
Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 32 bit*
Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 64 bit*
You can install vSphere CLI on the following Linux platforms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 (64 bit)*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 (32 bit)*
SUSE Enterprise Server 10 SP1 32 bit*
Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit*
Windows Server 2003 does not look like it's supported from their release notes. When you attempt to install any of these exe's from VMware (e.g. vCLI,vSphere SDK for Perl, PowerCLI,etc) there should be an installer log that is stored in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp and there should be a log file named vminst.log, see if you can do a search for it and figure the location on your server. You should probably only have one or a few. Delete the logs, re-install and ensure they are being generated and take a look at the errors. I'm assuming there are some packages that it expects that is not available by default on Windows Server 2003 system and since it's not on the list of supported OSes, might be hard to get support from VMware if you were to file an SR.
=========================================================================
William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".