Found a nifty trick today to help solve a outstanding issue for a customer.
"How to Use the Remote Command-line Interface to Invoke Storage Vmotion in Windows Server or Desktop."
B2V Guide to VMware ESX Server 3
Last Updated 5th January 2008 by Alistair Sutherland
http://b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm
To perform remote command line operations on an ESX host on versions of ESX up to 3.0.2, required either direct console access or using secure shell, e.g. Putty. As of ESX 3.5.0, there is a new alternative which is called RCLI.
There are 3 RCLI options
- RCLI Appliance (a ready-made downloadable VM appliance built on Debian Linux)
- RCLI for Windows
- RCLI for Linux
These three options bring the ability to run a subset of the commands available at the service console remotely without having to grant ssh access to the actual console. This RCLI interface provides the ability for users of VMware ESX Server 3i (hardware embedded hypervisor) to run the esxcfg commands.
Further, this interface is the only interface that a storage VMotion can be invoked from. To download the RCLI appliance, Windows installer or Linux installer, visit http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-RCLI and accept the EULA to reach the download links page.
http://www.vmware.com/download/eula.do
Download Remote CLI
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| VMware Virtual Infrastructure Remote CLI
This version of the VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI is incompatible with VI Perl Toolkit. These two products should be installed on different machines. The next refresh of the Remote CLI will fix this incompatibility.
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| Virtual appliance for the VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI |
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| Windows installer for VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI |
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