vmware-vsphere-cli-centos7.sh

vmware-vsphere-cli-centos7.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install required packages
yum makecache all
yum -y install openssl-devel cpan perl-Devel-StackTrace perl-Class-Data-Inheritable perl-Convert-ASN1 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-X509 perl-Exception-Class perl-Archive-Zip perl-Path-Class perl-Try-Tiny perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Class-MethodMaker perl-Data-UUID perl-Data-Dump perl-SOAP-Lite perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-NamespaceSupport perl-libxml-perl perl-XML-LibXML perl-Socket6 perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Net-INET6Glue

# Install perl modules with specific version
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan install BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.96.tar.gz LEONT/Module-Build-0.4205.tar.gz GBARR/libnet-1.22.tar.gz GAAS/libwww-perl-5.837.tar.gz PERLER/UUID-Random-0.04.tar.gz

# Unattended vspherecli install
yes | PAGER=cat ./vmware-install.pl --default

You just save me hours of trouble-shooting! This works beautifully without any user intervention, which I need for automatic deployment.

PS: Looks like IO::Compress::Zlib::Extra is also out of date by default. Had to grab a newer one from CPAN.

Development Tools are required too

yum groups install "Development Tools"

And YAML
cpan install YAML