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Hello guys,
Wondering if it is a known issue but can't install Server Administrator on ESXi 5.0 through CLI. I checked the Dell doc named "Dell OpenManage Wtih VMware ESXi 5.0 - Systems Management Guide" and command is correctly typed but no success. Zip file was correctly uploaded to /var/log/vmware folder on the ESX host. Was anyone successful ? Keep getting this MetadatadownloadError error, here is the command I type:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>esxcli --server 10.1.1.150 software vib install -d /var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip
Enter username: root
Enter password:
[MetadataDownloadError]
Could not download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip:/var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542
907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip?index.xml', '', "Error extracting index.xml from /var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '
/var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip'"))
url = zip:/var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip?index.xml
Please refer to the log file for more details.
Geoff-Vancouver
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Posted January 12th, 2012 17:00
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"
yoto
3 Posts
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Posted June 27th, 2014 06:00
I had the same issue.
Just move the .zip file to the path it is looking for:
~ # cd /var/log/vmware/
/var/log/vmware # ls
journal
/var/log/vmware # cp /OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.4.0-876.VIB-ESX51i_A00.zip ./
/var/log/vmware # esxcli software vib install -d ./OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.4.0-87
6.VIB-ESX51i_A00.zip
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_7.4-0000
VIBs Removed:
VIBs Skipped:
/var/log/vmware #