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How to Install VMware Tools on RHEL 7/CentOS 7

VMware ToolsVMware Tools is one of important components for virtual machine (VM) in order get excellent performance. It is a group of utilities that help to enhances the overall performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system (OS) and improves management of the VM. Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the important functionality. Below steps shows how to install the VMware Tools on RHEL 7, CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 7.

How to Install VMware Tools ?

Option 1 (Recommended by VMware) – VMware support of open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools is an open source implementation of VMware Tools from third parties and contains utilities that enhances virtualization management, administration and functions of the virtual machine in VMware environments. The ultimate goal is to enable the operating system vendors and/or communities and virtual appliance vendors to bundle VMware Tools into their product releases.

# yum install open-vm-tools
Option 2 :

1. Install prerequisites :

# yum install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel -y

2. Attach the vmware tools sofware from vSphere client.

3. Mount the vmware tools package into /mnt :

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

4. Copy vmware tool packagae into /tmp :

# cd /mnt

# ls
manifest.txt     VMwareTools-9.4.0-1280544.tar.gz  vmware-tools-upgrader-64
run_upgrader.sh  vmware-tools-upgrader-32
# cp -p VMwareTools-9.4.0-1280544.tar.gz /tmp

5. Go to /tmp directory and extract the vmware tools package :

# cd /tmp
# tar xzvf VMwareTools-9.4.0-1280544.tar.gz

6. Go to extracted folder, vmware-tools-distrib :

# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# ls
bin  doc  etc  FILES  INSTALL  installer  lib  vmware-install.pl

7. Run vmware-install.pl to start installation :

# ./vmware-install.pl

Example:

# ./vmware-install.pl
Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc/rc.d]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/rc.d/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program
is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
want? [yes]

The installation of VMware Tools 9.4.0 build-1280544 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing...


Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.

Stopping vmware-tools (via systemctl):                     [  OK  ]


The module vmci has already been installed on this system by another installer
or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer
or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish
to enable this feature? [no]

The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please
upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)

The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a
Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish to enable this feature?
[no]

VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of
VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present. This feature can be

enabled/disabled by re-running vmware-config-tools.pl.

Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules?
[no]

No X install found.

Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
Starting vmware-tools (via systemctl):                     [  OK  ]
The configuration of VMware Tools 9.4.0 build-1280544 for Linux for this
running kernel completed successfully.

You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take
effect.

You can now run VMware Tools by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the
command line.

To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,
3. Restart your X session.

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

8. Once successfully installed, make sure you umount back the /mnt :

# umount /mnt

 

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How to Install VMware Tools on CentOS 6.5

vmwaretoolsVMware Tools is one of important components in order to run virtual machine (VM) with excellent performance. It is a group of utilities that help to enhances the overall performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system (OS) and improves management of the VM. Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the important functionality. Below steps shows how to install the VMware Tools on CentOS 6.5 :

1. Install the prerequisites into your CentOS 6.5.

[root@centos6 ~]# yum install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel -y

Example.

[root@centos6 ~]# yum install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
base                                                                         | 3.7 kB     00:00
http://ossm.utm.my/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/repodata/617a880b84a87969e04bfeebb1b96d5f441da42ee931d374fa6b6d57decd821e-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://ossm.utm.my/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/repodata/617a880b84a87969e04bfeebb1b96d5f441da42ee931d374fa6b6d57decd821e-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
base/primary_db                                                              | 4.4 MB     00:49
extras                                                                       | 3.4 kB     00:00
extras/primary_db                                                            |  18 kB     00:00
updates                                                                      | 3.4 kB     00:00
updates/primary_db                                                           |  65 kB     00:00
Setting up Install Process
Package 1:make-3.81-20.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gcc.x86_64 0:4.4.7-4.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libgomp = 4.4.7-4.el6 for package: gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: cpp = 4.4.7-4.el6 for package: gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12 for package: gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: cloog-ppl >= 0.15 for package: gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgomp.so.1()(64bit) for package: gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-431.el6 will be installed
---> Package kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.32-431.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-136.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl-libs = 4:5.10.1-136.el6 for package: 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl-libs for package: 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(version) for package: 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Pod::Simple) for package: 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Module::Pluggable) for package: 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libperl.so()(64bit) for package: 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cloog-ppl.x86_64 0:0.15.7-1.2.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libppl_c.so.2()(64bit) for package: cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libppl.so.7()(64bit) for package: cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.x86_64
---> Package cpp.x86_64 0:4.4.7-4.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libmpfr.so.1()(64bit) for package: cpp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
---> Package glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.12-1.132.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers = 2.12-1.132.el6 for package: glibc-devel-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers for package: glibc-devel-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64
---> Package libgomp.x86_64 0:4.4.7-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-Module-Pluggable.x86_64 1:3.90-136.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-Pod-Simple.x86_64 1:3.13-136.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Pod::Escapes) >= 1.04 for package: 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-136.el6.x86_64
---> Package perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.10.1-136.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-version.x86_64 3:0.77-136.el6 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-headers.x86_64 0:2.12-1.132.el6 will be installed
---> Package mpfr.x86_64 0:2.4.1-6.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-Pod-Escapes.x86_64 1:1.04-136.el6 will be installed
---> Package ppl.x86_64 0:0.10.2-11.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

====================================================================================================
 Package                         Arch             Version                      Repository      Size
====================================================================================================
Installing:
 gcc                             x86_64           4.4.7-4.el6                  base            10 M
 kernel-devel                    x86_64           2.6.32-431.el6               base           8.7 M
 kernel-headers                  x86_64           2.6.32-431.el6               base           2.8 M
 perl                            x86_64           4:5.10.1-136.el6             base            10 M
Installing for dependencies:
 cloog-ppl                       x86_64           0.15.7-1.2.el6               base            93 k
 cpp                             x86_64           4.4.7-4.el6                  base           3.7 M
 glibc-devel                     x86_64           2.12-1.132.el6               base           978 k
 glibc-headers                   x86_64           2.12-1.132.el6               base           608 k
 libgomp                         x86_64           4.4.7-4.el6                  base           118 k
 mpfr                            x86_64           2.4.1-6.el6                  base           157 k
 perl-Module-Pluggable           x86_64           1:3.90-136.el6               base            40 k
 perl-Pod-Escapes                x86_64           1:1.04-136.el6               base            32 k
 perl-Pod-Simple                 x86_64           1:3.13-136.el6               base           212 k
 perl-libs                       x86_64           4:5.10.1-136.el6             base           578 k
 perl-version                    x86_64           3:0.77-136.el6               base            51 k
 ppl                             x86_64           0.10.2-11.el6                base           1.3 M

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================
Install      16 Package(s)

Total download size: 40 M
Installed size: 98 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/16): cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.x86_64.rpm                                  |  93 kB     00:00
(2/16): cpp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64.rpm                                           | 3.7 MB     00:42
(3/16): gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64.rpm                                           |  10 MB     01:40
(4/16): glibc-devel-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64.rpm                                | 978 kB     00:09
(5/16): glibc-headers-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64.rpm                              | 608 kB     00:06
(6/16): kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.rpm                               | 8.7 MB     01:25
(7/16): kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.rpm                             | 2.8 MB     00:30
(8/16): libgomp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64.rpm                                       | 118 kB     00:01
(9/16): mpfr-2.4.1-6.el6.x86_64.rpm                                          | 157 kB     00:01
(10/16): perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64.rpm                                      |  10 MB     01:35
(11/16): perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-136.el6.x86_64.rpm                       |  40 kB     00:00
(12/16): perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-136.el6.x86_64.rpm                            |  32 kB     00:00
(13/16): perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-136.el6.x86_64.rpm                             | 212 kB     00:01
(14/16): perl-libs-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64.rpm                                 | 578 kB     00:05
(15/16): perl-version-0.77-136.el6.x86_64.rpm                                |  51 kB     00:00
(16/16): ppl-0.10.2-11.el6.x86_64.rpm                                        | 1.3 MB     00:11
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                               103 kB/s |  40 MB     06:35
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: NOKEY
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
Importing GPG key 0xC105B9DE:
 Userid : CentOS-6 Key (CentOS 6 Official Signing Key) <centos-6-key@centos.org>
 Package: centos-release-6-5.el6.centos.11.1.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201311272149.x86_64/6.5)
 From   : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : 1:perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-136.el6.x86_64                                          1/16
  Installing : 4:perl-libs-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64                                               2/16
  Installing : 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-136.el6.x86_64                                           3/16
  Installing : 3:perl-version-0.77-136.el6.x86_64                                              4/16
  Installing : 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-136.el6.x86_64                                     5/16
  Installing : 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64                                                    6/16
  Installing : ppl-0.10.2-11.el6.x86_64                                                        7/16
  Installing : cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.x86_64                                                 8/16
  Installing : mpfr-2.4.1-6.el6.x86_64                                                         9/16
  Installing : cpp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64                                                         10/16
  Installing : libgomp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64                                                     11/16
  Installing : kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64                                           12/16
  Installing : glibc-headers-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64                                            13/16
  Installing : glibc-devel-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64                                              14/16
  Installing : gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64                                                         15/16
  Installing : kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64                                             16/16
  Verifying  : 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-136.el6.x86_64                                     1/16
  Verifying  : kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64                                            2/16
  Verifying  : cpp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64                                                          3/16
  Verifying  : glibc-devel-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64                                               4/16
  Verifying  : 1:perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-136.el6.x86_64                                          5/16
  Verifying  : libgomp-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64                                                      6/16
  Verifying  : 4:perl-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64                                                    7/16
  Verifying  : mpfr-2.4.1-6.el6.x86_64                                                         8/16
  Verifying  : 4:perl-libs-5.10.1-136.el6.x86_64                                               9/16
  Verifying  : 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-136.el6.x86_64                                          10/16
  Verifying  : kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64                                             11/16
  Verifying  : gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64                                                         12/16
  Verifying  : 3:perl-version-0.77-136.el6.x86_64                                             13/16
  Verifying  : ppl-0.10.2-11.el6.x86_64                                                       14/16
  Verifying  : cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.x86_64                                                15/16
  Verifying  : glibc-headers-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64                                            16/16

Installed:
  gcc.x86_64 0:4.4.7-4.el6                          kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-431.el6
  kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.32-431.el6            perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-136.el6

Dependency Installed:
  cloog-ppl.x86_64 0:0.15.7-1.2.el6                   cpp.x86_64 0:4.4.7-4.el6
  glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.12-1.132.el6                 glibc-headers.x86_64 0:2.12-1.132.el6
  libgomp.x86_64 0:4.4.7-4.el6                        mpfr.x86_64 0:2.4.1-6.el6
  perl-Module-Pluggable.x86_64 1:3.90-136.el6         perl-Pod-Escapes.x86_64 1:1.04-136.el6
  perl-Pod-Simple.x86_64 1:3.13-136.el6               perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.10.1-136.el6
  perl-version.x86_64 3:0.77-136.el6                  ppl.x86_64 0:0.10.2-11.el6

Complete!

2. Attach the vmware tools sofware from vSphere client. Assumed that the host is ESXi 4.1.
1

3. Mount the attached vmware tool software.
[root@centos6 tmp]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
[root@centos6 tmp]# cd /mnt
[root@centos6 tmp]# ls
VMwareTools-8.3.7-341836.tar.gz  yum.log

4. Extract the VMware tools

[root@centos6 tmp]# tar xzvf VMwareTools-8.3.7-341836.tar.gz

5. Start install by issue command “./vmware-install.pl”

[root@centos6 tmp]# cd vmware-tools-distrib
[root@centos6 vmware-tools-distrib]# ls
bin  doc  etc  FILES  INSTALL  installer  lib  vmware-install.pl
[root@centos6 vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl

Full installation as below :

[root@centos6 vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl
Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc/rc.d]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/rc.d/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program
is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
want? [yes]

The installation of VMware Tools 8.3.7 build-341836 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing...

Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Guest operating system daemon:                          [  OK  ]
   Virtual Printing daemon:                                [  OK  ]
   Unmounting HGFS shares:                                 [  OK  ]
   Guest filesystem driver:                                [  OK  ]

The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.  Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=vmmemctl to override.

Found a compatible pre-built module for vmhgfs.  Installing it...

Found a compatible pre-built module for vmxnet.  Installing it...

Found a compatible pre-built module for vmblock.  Installing it...

Found a compatible pre-built module for vmci.  Installing it...

Found a compatible pre-built module for vsock.  Installing it...

The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.  Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=vmxnet3 to override.

The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another
installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.  Use the flag
--clobber-kernel-modules=pvscsi to override.

No X install found.

Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
   Checking acpi hot plug                                  [  OK  ]
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Switching to guest configuration:                       [  OK  ]
   VM communication interface:                             [  OK  ]
   VM communication interface socket family:               [  OK  ]
   Guest operating system daemon:                          [  OK  ]
   Virtual Printing daemon:                                [  OK  ]

The configuration of VMware Tools 8.3.7 build-341836 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.

You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take
effect.

You can now run VMware Tools by invoking the following command:
"/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox" during an X server session.

To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and
file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,
3. Restart your X session.

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

/sbin/restorecon:  Warning no default label for /tmp/vmware-block-restore0/tmp_file
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How to Obtain Diagnostic Information for VMware ESXi 5.0 hosts using the vSphere Client

When you lodged a support request to VMware Technical Support, they routinely requests the diagnostic information from you. This diagnostic information contains product specific logs and configuration files from the host on which the product is run or from the host that may have issues and need further troubleshooting. This information is gathered using a specific script or tool within the product. Collecting diagnostic information is the same as collecting or gathering log files. This post will provides procedures for obtaining diagnostic information for ESXi 5.0.

VMware Official Knowledge Base

ESXi 5.0 host diagnostic information can be gathered using the vSphere Client connected to the ESXi host or to vCenter Server.

To gather diagnostic data using the VMware vSphere Client:

1.  Open the vSphere Client and connect to vCenter Server or directly to an ESXi 5.0 host.
2.  Log in using an account with administrative privileges or with the Global.Diagnostics permission.
3.  Select an ESXi host, cluster, or datacenter in the inventory.
4.  Click the File > Export > Export System Logs.
5.  If a group of ESXi hosts are available in the selected context, select the host or group of hosts from the Source list.
6.  Click Next.
7.  In the System Logs pane, select the components for which the diagnostic information must be obtained. To collect diagnostic information for all the components, click Select All.
8.  If required, select the Gather performance data option and specify a duration and interval.

VMware
9.  Click Next.
10.  In the Download Location pane, click Browse and select a location on the client’s disk where you want to to save the support bundle.
11.  Click Next.
12.  In the Ready to Complete pane, review the summary and click Finish. The Downloading System Logs Bundles dialog appears and provides progress status for the creation and downloading of the support bundle from each source. A Generate system logs bundles task is created.
13. When complete, upload the logs to the FTP site. For more information, see Uploading diagnostic information to VMware (1008525).

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How to Download VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI)

The vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI) command set allows you to run common system administration commands against ESX/ESXi systems from any machine with network access to those systems. vSphere CLI provides a set of commands that you use to manage, configure, and automate administrative activities for ESXi and your vSphere virtual environment. It’s includes the ESXCLI command set, vicfg- commands, and some other commands. This are the current version of the vSphere CLI at the time this post is written.

Version: 5.0
Release Date: 8/24/2011
Target Platform: ESXi 5.0, ESX 4.x, vCenter 4.x and later, VMware Infrastructure 3.5 u2 and later

To install vSphere CLI version 5.0 on your workstation, please follow the steps :

1. Browse to ESXi 5.0 server’s ip address. As example, http://192.168.1.50,
Under For Administrator –> vSphere Remote Command Line, Click “Download Windows Installer(exe)“. This vSphere CLI installer is for windows operating system platform such as Windows 7 and Windows XP :
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2. Click Download to proceed :
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3. If you have registered to vmware.com, please login, otherwise register it for free :
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4. Please select download option either using Download manager or use web browser. Recommended way is to use Download manager as i may faster than usual. By the way, I have use web browser :
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5. Wait for downloading.
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How to Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest

It is recommended to install VMware Tools in the guest operating system. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose important functionality, convenience and performance improvement.

When you install VMware Tools, you install the following components:

a) The VMware Tools service (vmtoolsd.exe on Windows guests or vmtoolsd on Linux and Solaris guests). This service synchronizes the time in the guest operating system with the time in the host operating system. On Windows guests, it also controls grabbing and releasing the mouse cursor.

b) A set of VMware device drivers, including an SVGA display driver, the vmxnet networking driver for some guest operating systems, the BusLogic SCSI driver for some guest operating systems, the memory control driver for efficient memory allocation between virtual machines, the sync driver to quiesce I/O for Consolidated Backup, and the VMware mouse driver.

c) The VMware Tools control panel, which lets you modify settings, shrink virtual disks, and connect and disconnect virtual devices.

d) You can also use the command-line interface of the VMware Tools configuration utility in the guest operating system to perform these tasks. See the VMware Tools Configuration Utility User’s Guide.

e) A set of scripts that helps you to automate guest operating system operations. The scripts run when the virtual machine’s power state changes if you configure them to do so.

f) The VMware user process (VMwareUser.exe on Windows guests or vmware-user on Linux and Solaris guests), which enables you to copy and paste text between the guest and managed host operating systems.

To install VMware Tools in a Solaris guest operating system, follow the following steps :

1. Ensure that your Solaris virtual machine is powered on. In the vSphere Client inventory, right-click the virtual machine and select Power > Power On.

2. Click VM in the virtual machine menu, then click Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools and click OK.

3. Copy vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz from /cdrom/vmwaretools to a temporary directory (/tmp/).

[root@solaris ~]# cp /cdrom/vmwaretools/vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz /tmp
[root@solaris ~]# cd /tmp

4. Decompress the file using gunzip command.

[root@solaris tmp]# gunzip vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz

5. Extract the contents of the tar file with the command:

[root@solaris tmp]# tar xvf vmware-solaris-tools.tar

6. Change directory using the command:

[root@solaris tmp]# cd vmware-tools-distrib

7. To install VMware Tools, run this command from the directory vmware-tools-distrib :

[root@solaris vmware-tools-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl

Important Note :It is recommended to respond to the configuration questions and press “Enter” to accept all of the default values. Reboot the virtual machine for changes to take effect.

8. Check if VMware tools service is running with the command:

[root@solaris ~]# /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status

The output is similar to:

vmware-guestd is running
vmware-memctld is running
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How to Add a New Hard Disk Without Rebooting VM Guest on RHEL 6/CentOS 6

Assumed that you need additional hard disk for your Linux RHEL 6 server to provide more storage space but this the server cannot be reboot due to production environment. This server also assumed to be running on the VMware ESXi machine. In order to add additional hard disk without reboot, you have to perform the following steps. This steps has been tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). It may works on RHEL 5 and CentOS 5.

1. Perform the steps to add a new disk to VM Guest through VMware vCenter Server/VMware vSphere. In this case i will add 12 GB space to second hard disk space which on raw devide /dev/sdb.

2. Find scsi_host value using the following command:

[root@rhel6 ~]# ls /sys/class/scsi_host
host0  host1  host2

In this rhel 6 server, there are three scsi_host exist, host0, host1 and host2.

3. Rescan the SCSI Bus to Add a SCSI Device Without rebooting the VM

[root@rhel6 host0]# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
[root@rhel6 host0]# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host1/scan
[root@rhel6 host0]# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host2/scan

4. Check the new hard disk /dev/sdb :

[root@rhel6 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 12.9 GB, 12884901888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1566 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000690f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          64      512000   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              64        1567    12069888   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 10.2 GB, 10242490368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2113 MB, 2113929216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 257 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdb: 12.9 GB, 12884901888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1566 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
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How to Enable ssh Access for a Privileged User in VMware ESXi 4.1

On the previous post, i have teach you on how to create the additional user on VMware ESXi 4.1 host. That new user will successfully connect to ESXi host using vSphere client but will failed when you try to connect using ssh access. This error message will be prompted:

    Access Denied

Example:

    Login as: demoroot
demoroot@ESXi4.1host's password:
Access denied

To resolve this issue, follow below steps:

1. Connect the ESXi 4.1 host via Tech Support mode (local or remote SSH) as the root user.
2. Issue the following commands:

usermod -s /bin/ash <username>
mkdir -p /home/<username>
chown <username> /home/<username>

Example:

    ~ # usermod -s /bin/ash demoroot
~ # mkdir -p /home/demoroot
~ # chown demoroot /home/demoroot

Reference

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How to Resolve Number of Virtual Devices Exceeds the Maximum for a Given Controller

I believed most of system administrator and vmware administrator experiencing these issues when cloning a virtual machine on ESXi vCenter server.

Symptoms
Cloning process fails at approximately 90% with error message:

    Number of virtual devices exceeds the maximum for a given controller

Solutions:
1. Make sure there are no CDs or ISOs mounted to the VM
2. Make sure that the source machine has been Power off before the clone to get a clean copy.
3. Clone the virtual machine again, without selecting the Edit Virtual hardware (Experimental)option.
4. Finish

References:
1. www.extropy.com
2. kb.vmware.com

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How to Remove an VMware ESX/ESXi Host From vCenter Server

I will guide you the simple steps on how to remove esx/esxi host from vcenter server. This guide assume that you already have the vCenter server to manage esx/esxi hosts.

Steps:
1. Go to Esxi Host that you want to remove from vcenter
2. Right click and click remove
3. You will be warn before you remove the host
4. Click yes
5. Finish

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How to Add ESX/ESXi Host Into vCenter Server

There are the simple steps to add new host into existing vCenter server. Follow these steps to proceed:

1. Login to vCenter server
2. Right click TestDataCenter
3. Then click Add host and ‘Add Host Wizard’ will appear
4. On Add Host Wizard fill in the following info:

  • Enter Host or ip address of the host to add to vCenter.
  • on Authorization, enter the administrative account information for the host such as username and password.

5. Click Next and the proceed to complete the wizard.

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How to Create Additional User on VMware ESXi 4.1 Host

There is easy way to create the additional user on VMware ESXi 4.1 host. This steps also can be apply on ESX 4.0 or ESXi 4.0 or ESX 4.1 host.

Steps :
1. Connect via vSphere client to your ESXi 4.1 server
2. On Local user & Group, Add user
3. Assign to the group.
4. Then go to permission tab
5. To assign a permission to an individual or group of users, add their name to the users and group listed.
6. Add the target user to the role you desire.