Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a way to identify (if possible) the ESX/vSphere version that a particular VMWare guest server is running on without the use of vmware tools related commands, such as vmware-checkvm, which does seem to do the trick from what I can gather.
[root@server ~]# vmware-checkvm -h VM's hw version is 4 VMware software version 6 (good) [root@server ~]# The reason behind this is that we have brought online a new site that uses ESX5, and I'd like new VM's to be able to self classify what ESX specific packages and services to install and manage without any admin intervention, ie, Do I install the ESX4 tools, or the ESX5 ones. I have had a bit of a poke around to see if this is possible, but have so far come up empty handed, and feel it may not be possible in a way that I can roll it into a custom fact, so i may have to go down the route of pushing some new values into our ENC that define the version of ESX in use at each particular site, which isnt perfect, but will also do the job. Has anyone ever had to deal with this chicken/egg situation ? And if so, did you find a solution ? Thanks in advance, K -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/0-kAK--l5IcJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
