Comments on: Start and Manage a VM Without Using vSphere Client http://www.vcritical.com/2011/03/start-and-manage-a-vm-without-using-vsphere-client/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:44:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Yura http://www.vcritical.com/2011/03/start-and-manage-a-vm-without-using-vsphere-client/#comment-13961 Yura Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:02:44 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3359#comment-13961 Im lost vCenter on blade array, and i’l need up it. Very thanks for help!

]]> By: Yura http://www.vcritical.com/2011/03/start-and-manage-a-vm-without-using-vsphere-client/#comment-13960 Yura Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:57:19 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3359#comment-13960 Very thanks for it! You are safe my life! :)
sorry for my english (:

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2011/03/start-and-manage-a-vm-without-using-vsphere-client/#comment-13574 Eric Gray Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:53:15 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3359#comment-13574 Yes. You are running Tools aren’t you?

]]> By: dave http://www.vcritical.com/2011/03/start-and-manage-a-vm-without-using-vsphere-client/#comment-13572 dave Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:12:16 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3359#comment-13572 Thanks for the steps.

It looks like you have to have VMWare guest tools installed in order to get the ip address this way. Is this true?

~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/get.summary 16 | egrep ‘(power|ip)’
powerState = “poweredOn”,
ipAddress = ,

We don’t install the guest tools:

guest = (vim.vm.Summary.GuestSummary) {
dynamicType = ,
guestId = ,
guestFullName = ,
toolsStatus = “toolsNotInstalled”,
toolsVersionStatus = “guestToolsNotInstalled”,
toolsRunningStatus = “guestToolsNotRunning”,
hostName = ,
ipAddress = ,
},

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