Comments on: VMware RCLI now writes to ESXi Free Hosts

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:29:53 +0000

Is this read/write situation carried through to ESX 4i?

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Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:03:12 +0000

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By: lemonadecowboy

lemonadecowboy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:19:33 +0000

I am little bit disappointed with RCLI – it is just like empty box, I wrote down some scripts for RCLI. And from my experience there missing some basic settings for deployment ESXi:

-rename existing portgroup (or edit VLAN)
-rename local storage – you can create local storage, for my surprise you cannot delete existing one – this influence another thing – easily set scratch partition – I find some workaround
-set nic failover order on vswitch, also on portgroup

so when I try to deploy 10 ESXi, I have to use UDA for pxe boot ESXi and unfortunatelly manually go through install process, then I execute RCLI scripts, then I need to set up rest – like failover order manually on all ESXi – uff really tough deployment..

By: Curb Your Enthusiasm, ESXi RCLI’s APIs not really open yet!| Virtualization .. and every thing around it| HyperViZor

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:37:38 +0000

[...] has been blogged all over the place that VMware has enabled the RCLI Read/Write on the latest update of ESXi, but it seems [...]

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UPDATE: VMware RCLI now writes to ESXi Free Hosts — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:49:19 +0000

[...] wrote a few days ago that the ESXi 3.5 U3 update unlocked the API set. Well, this was only partially true. I was just [...]

By: Jame

Jame — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:20:01 +0000

I don't if it was working with U2 but I have tried it with U3. And it works well. You can backup / restore the ESXi configuration with
vicfg-cfgbackup.pl -s c:config.txt / vicfg-cfgbackup -f -l c:config.txt

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:08:24 +0000

Sweet…this would definitely apply to the Windows PowerShell VI Toolkit as well, then.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:19:51 +0000

Awesome Mike, nice work

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