{"id":1344,"date":"2016-03-01T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.domb.net\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:27:31","slug":"cloudforms-smart-state-analysis-preparation-for-vsphere-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"CloudForms smart state analysis preparation for VSphere 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past we used the VMware-vix-disklib-5.5.2-1890828.x86_64.tar.gz for VSphere 5.5 which was pretty easy to install. VMWare included a script called vmware-install.pl which did all the work for you. In 6.0 the script is gone. <\/p>\n<p>Attached find the steps to get it working with CloudForms 4 and VSphere 6.<br \/>\nYou can find the VDDK 6.0 here: https:\/\/developercenter.vmware.com\/web\/sdk\/60\/vddk<\/p>\n<p>1  Copy the downloaded file VMware-vix-disklib-6.0.0-2498720.x86_64.tar.gz to \/tmp on the appliance.<br \/>\n2. Untar the VMware-vix-disklib-6.0.0-2498720.x86_64.tar.gz<br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] tar -xzvf VMware-vix-disklib-6.0.0-2498720.x86_64.tar.gz <\/code><br \/>\n3. Create the directory \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib<br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] mkdir -p \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib <\/code><br \/>\n4. Move the following directories and their contents into \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib:<br \/>\nbin64, include, lib64<br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] mv \/tmp\/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib\/bin64 \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib\/  <\/code><br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] mv \/tmp\/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib\/lib64 \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib\/  <\/code><br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] mv \/tmp\/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib\/include \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib\/  <\/code><\/p>\n<p>5. Create symlinks to the libvixdiskLib so that introspection will work.<br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] ln -s \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib\/lib64\/libvixDiskLib.so \/usr\/lib\/libvixDiskLib.so <\/code><br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] ln -s \/usr\/lib\/vmware-vix-disklib\/lib64\/libvixDiskLib.so.6 \/usr\/lib\/libvixDiskLib.so.6 <\/code><\/p>\n<p>6. Load the libs<br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] ldconfig <\/code><br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] ldconfig -p | grep vix<\/code><br \/>\n<code>[root@miq ~] reboot <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past we used the VMware-vix-disklib-5.5.2-1890828.x86_64.tar.gz for VSphere 5.5 which was pretty easy to install. VMWare included a script called vmware-install.pl which did all the work for you. In 6.0 the script is gone. Attached find the steps to get it working with CloudForms 4 and VSphere 6. You can find the VDDK 6.0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloudforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.domb.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}