#Vcenter download linux boot cd how to

Guest name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit) To retrieve all of the information about a VM you can use the vm.info command: Processor type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU 3.20GHz To get information about an ESXi host you can pass the name of the host to the command: To find an object you can use the find command (this is super handy): To view all of your data stores you can use the command:

#Vcenter download linux boot cd how to

The following examples show how to list all of your vCenter objects and retrieve information about your data center: Govc takes a command as the first argument followed by one or more options. To see the true utility of govc let me show a couple of examples. To connect govc to a vCenter instance you will need to export a couple of variables (if you specify a root CA certificate bundle with the GOVC_TLS_CA_CERTS option you can leave out the first export): To list all of the commands govc can be run without an argument:

Once installed you can verify the binary works by running it with the about command: $ cp bin/govc /usr/local/bin/govc & chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/govc If you want to live on the cutting edge you can also build govc from source: $ gunzip govc_linux_amd64.gz & mv govc_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/govc & chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/govc

The govc binary is opensource and the build team provides binary builds on their release page. To get going with govc all you need is a Linux machine. After a good deal of use I can affirmatively say that this gem makes a HUGE difference in productivity!

Being a command line user who loves to automate I decided to test out the govc command line utility to see if this would improve my experience. The bugs, constant crashes and sluggishness have really impeded my ability to be productive. Managing vSphere through the web UI has been extremely frustrating though. For the past year I’ve been working quite a bit with VMWare’s vSphere virtualization suite.