Posts tagged VMware Infrastructure

Using the integrated kickstart generator

Oct 14th

Posted by Christian in Life

VMware built an kickstart generator into ESX 3.5. You just need to enable it, simply by editing an XML configuration and restarting the webAccess service. Simply edit /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.26/webapps/ui/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml and look for the line saying:

<action path="/scriptedInstall" type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/disabled.jsp" />

This line needs to be commented out (<– and –>) and the lines following, having those comment marks around them needs to be removed.

<!--
<action path="/scriptedInstall" type="com.vmware.webcenter.scripted.ProcessAction">
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form1" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form1.jsp" />
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form2" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form2.jsp" />
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form3" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form3.jsp" />
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form4" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form4.jsp" />
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form5" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form5.jsp" />
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form6" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form6.jsp" />
  <forward name="scriptedInstall.form7" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form7.jsp" />
</action>
-->

After doing that, you should be able to restart the webAccess service, and after that access your ESX host.

# service vmware-webAccess restart
Stopping VMware ESX Server webAccess:
   VMware ESX Server webAccess                             [FAILED]
Starting VMware ESX Server webAccess:
   VMware ESX Server webAccess                             [  OK  ]

If that worked, you should see the Login to Script Installer link on the Dashboard of the Web interface.

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VI Client: Changing the language from the system default

Jan 14th

Posted by Christian in Life

Well, as I am in fact running a german Windows XP, the VI Client started displaying all menus and operations in German when I updated to 2.5u2. Normally, I wouldn’t have much of a problem with that, but recently it started to annoy me, since the translation is a bit off from the real meaning of much of the operations.

So today, in the morning I started looking for ways to revert the VI Client back to displaying everything in English. And guess what. There’s no way to switch the language from the VI Client itself. There’s just a workaround.

Simply rename the folder in “%ProgramFiles%\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\2.5“, %ProgramFiles%\VMware\Infrastructure\VIUpdate” “%ProgramFiles%\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\Converter Enterprise 4.0.2” and “%ProgramFiles%\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\Update Manager 1.0 Update3” named “de” to something else. Tada, your VI Client is back in English.

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