Have you ever experience your Virtual Console down and VMWare Infrastructure Client not working?

Here’s an alternative solution for you: a Bash script to run on your ESX Server.

Sample screen shot:

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VMWARE ESX Management Tool Script
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Author : http://malaysiavm.com/blog
Version : 1.00.20081107.14.31
Supported ESX Version : 2.5 – 3.5
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0. VM Informations
1. Register VM
2. Unregister VM
3. Check VM Status
4. Power ON VM
5. Power OFF VM
6. Suspend VM
E. Exit

Choice:

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Known Issue:
1) DO NOT support VM with space in the middle, ex: “MY VM Server”. It will show as 3 blank VM servers, and none of these 3 are working.

Note:
1) This script need to execute as ROOT on your ESX Server (DO NOT Support 3.0i and 3.5i).

2) There is absolutely no guarantee from us and use at your own risk!

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## Script START here

#!/bin/bash
#
# Get VM Guest Mac Address – getmacadd.sh
#
# The getmacadd.sh script must run as root on VMware ESX server.
#
# This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution
#
# Change Log:
# 15 Oct 2008 – version 0.1
#

export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

id_check() {

if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]
then
echo “You must be root to run this script!”
exit
fi
}

id_check

for COUNT in $(vmware-cmd -l); do
echo `echo $COUNT|awk -F’/’ ‘{print $6}’`
echo ” “`echo $COUNT`
echo ” “`cat $COUNT|grep “displayName”`
#MAC Address may refer to “Address” instead of “generatedAddress”
echo ” “`cat $COUNT|grep “generatedAddress”`
echo
done

## Script END here

Result Example:

KULVMSLES01.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4827fff4-c35f1a3e-299c-002aa0288d45/KULVMSLES01/KULVMSLES01.vmx
displayName = “KULVMSLES01″
ethernet0.generatedAddress = “00:50:56:8a:54:c1″

KULVMWIN2K8.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/47da2ced-93f44308-e601-0025171a435a/KULVMWIN2K8/KULVMWIN2K8.vmx
displayName = “KULVMWIN2K8″
ethernet0.generatedAddress = “00:50:57:8a:6f:be”

Anyway, you can get Linux MAC Address by running command:
/sbin/ifconfig -a | grep “HWaddr” | cut -d ” ” -f 11

Example:
KULVMSLES01:# ifconfig -a | grep “HWaddr” | cut -d ” ” -f 11
00:1A:A0:2C:CA:C1

Please feel free to modify, share and comment to make it perfect.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.