vmware tools on Cisco Prime Infrastructure

[kerim mohammed]

Hi,

Is there a way to install vMware tools on Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2. I know this can be done on LMS4.2. how about access to the shell like LMS4.2?

Thanks,

Kerim

[Marvin Rhoads]

Have you tried the procedure cited in this thread?

It is for LMS but the process is generic enought that I'd think it would work with anuy of the Linux-based ADE-OS shell applications

[stefanhoppe]

Hi,

has anybody tested the installation of VMwareTools in PI 1.2 or 1.3 ? I have tried it with the procedure described in the install guide of LMS 4.2 but it didn`t work.

Has anybody tested to migrate a maschine to an other cluster via VMotion ? Is it possible with Prime Infrstructure 1.2 or 1.3 ?

[predrag2006]

Hi,

Installation should be pretty straightforward. Since it is running on supported platform.

ade # uname -a

Linux INTERNAL-NCS 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 13:32:19 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ade # cat /etc/redhat-release                                                                                                                     

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)

What you should do is:

1) Attach the vmware tools in vCenter or the Console.

2) Mount the media.

3) Install the vmware tools.

Regards,

P.

[anshumaan.mishra]

"root" with admin password to access the shell of PI1.2/PI1.3.

[patoberli]

Is that a supported way to upgrade the tools?

Or is there an other way to do this?

[STEFFEN NEUSER]

found out, that PI2 comes bundeled with prebuilt vmware-tools installed allready:

ade # modprobe -l | grep vm

/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.1.1.el5/misc/vmci.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.1.1.el5/misc/vmmemctl.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.1.1.el5/misc/vmxnet.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.1.1.el5/misc/vmxnet3.ko

ade # vmware-checkvm

VMware software version 6 (good)

ade # /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-hgfsmounter
Usage: vmware-hgfsmounter

[-o ]

ade # chkconfig --list | grep vmware

vmware-tools    0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off

ade # who -r

         run-level 3  Feb 27 11:58                   last=S

ade # locate vmtools-install.log

/opt/CSCOlumos/logs/vmtools-install.log ade # locate vmtools-install.log
/opt/CSCOlumos/logs/vmtools-install.log

I didnt installed vmware at this PI2-VA.

Steffen

[brycereeves]

This was not preinstalled on ours though the files were there. We found the .gz install in this directory:

/opt/CSCOlumos/tempInstallFiles

we copied the the file to tmp:

ade# cp /opt/CSCOlumos/tempInstallFiles/VMwareTools-8.6.5-621624.tar.gz /tmp

changed to that directory and unzipped the file

ade# tar zxvf VMwareTools-8.6.5-621624.tar.gz

and installed the file

ade# cd vmware-tools-distrib

ade# ./vmware-install.pl

and it is now running

ade # ps auxwww | grep vm

root     22100  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   07:59   0:00 [vmmemctl]

root     22326  0.0  0.0 134004  4124 ?        S    07:59   0:00 /usr/sbin/vmtoolsd

root     22397  0.0  0.0   6044   588 pts/1    S+   08:00   0:00 grep vm

[Bill CARTER]

I blogged the steps here.

http://billyc5022.blogspot.com/2014/06/cisco-prime-infrastructure-21-upgrade.html

[agiacometti]

Excellent !!!

It works perfectly on PI2.1