Here's how we did this:

- browse the ESXi host datastore.  Create a directory called “Dell”.  Remember that Unix/Linux is case sensitive in everything that follows:

  Internal server IP address is: 172.16.9.99 in our case

  Datastore is (creatively) called: datastoreA

  I downloaded Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) monitoring agent from

  en.community.dell.com/.../1977.aspx

  and copied it to the datastore, in a newly-created directory:  Dell

Installed the VMWare vSphere command line interface;  Opened a command line interface prompt (just a DOS prompt in the VMWare vSphere CLI directory):

This is the command I used, substituting [datastoreA] with the name you gave your datastore:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI>esxcli --server 172.16.9.99 software vib install -d [datastoreA]/Dell/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip

It seemed to work:

Enter username: root

Enter password:

Installation Result

  Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.

  Reboot Required: true

  VIBs Installed: Dell_bootbank_OpenManage_6.5-0000

Good luck!

I found this thread while I was struggling to get this working myself. The suggestion above didn't work for me but something else did. I think because my datastore's name has a space in it, I had to put the location of the file in parenthesis. It would tell me invalid command "[OS". I figured it was hanging up on the space between OS and Datastore. I gave the command down below a shot and it worked perfectly! Thanks for some guidance!!

esxcli --server 10.20.0.2 software vib install -d "[OS Datastore]/Dell/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip"

I could not get this to work. I eventually just wrote out the vmfs id

I also renamed the zip file to something easier to type.

esxcli --server 10.2.1.3 software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/4f14e96d-673fa1b7-0b72-001e4f2f111a/omsa.zip