When my Virtual Infrastructure finally grew to a state in which I had a few different VMFSes spread across several SAN LUNs, it became time to get my feet wet with Storage vMotion. Here’s how to download, install, and utilize the VMWare Infrastructure Remote CLI virtual appliance which has everything needed in order to utilize this feature from one centralized location.
Download
- Go to http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/drivers_tools.html and click on the Download link under Vmware Infrastructure Remote CLI.
- You must have an account on the VMWare website to proceed.
- Agree to the license agreement and download the zip file for the Virtual Appliance. At the time of download, this file was 258MB. After unpacked and imported, it will take up 4GB on your VMFS volume.
- Unzip the file to a location on your desktop.
Installation
- Using your VI client, connect to your Virtual Center.
- In the inventory pane, click on the host where you’d like to keep the virtual appliance.
- From the File menu, select Virtual Appliance – Import.
- Choose Import from file and browse to the OVF file that you decompressed.
- Choose your VM name, location and datastore to proceed.
Running the RCLI VM
- Select the Virtual Machine in your inventory and power it on.
- At first boot, you will be prompted to agree to the Perl toolkit license agreement, set a root password and set up networking.
- You’re ready to go! To download the Remote Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide, go to http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/drivers_tools.html and click on Documentation.
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