Issue running on ESXi 3.5

[RobMarshall109]

I've been running ghettoVCB for a while now and it has been working great. I just updated to the latest version and found that on my 1 ESXi 3.5 host the script would fail with the error - "You're not running ESX(i) 3.5, 4.x, 5.x!".

I found by changing following line, the issue was resolved

 ESX_VERSION=$(vmware -v | awk '{print $3}')

to

 ESX_VERSION=$(vmware -v | awk '{print $4}')

The vmware version info comes back as the following on my host:

 ~ # vmware -v
 VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 build-207095
 ~ # vmware -v | awk '{print $3}'
 Server
 ~ # vmware -v | awk '{print $4}'
 3i

[fdleersn]

Hi Rob,

I believe this would break the check for the other versions.
Perhaps using sed or grep to match the version is more suitable.

something like the following sed does the trick

ESX_VERSION=$(vmware -v | sed -e 's#.([3-9].[0-9].[0-9]).#\1#')

but that wouldn't catch 3i. Although it does match any version formatted x.x.x. So that might be good enough as 3.5.0 is also in the line.

using grep on the other hand might be more flexible/readable if syntax is changed in future versions

ESX_VERSION=$(vmware -v)

if echo "${ESX_VERSION}" | grep -E '5.0.0|5.1.0' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
VER=5
elif echo "${ESX_VERSION}" | grep -E '4.0.0|4.1.0' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
VER=4
elif echo "${ESX_VERSION}" | grep -E '3.5.0' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
VER=3
else
echo "You're not running ESX(i) 3.5, 4.x, 5.x!"; exit 1;
fi

Best regards,
Fréderic

On 1-feb.-2013, at 01:05, RobMarshall109 [email protected] wrote:

I've been running ghettoVCB for a while now and it has been working great. I just updated to the latest version and found that on my 1 ESXi 3.5 host the script would fail with the error - "You're not running ESX(i) 3.5, 4.x, 5.x!".

I found by changing following line, the issue was resolved

ESX_VERSION=$(vmware -v | awk '{print $3}')

to

ESX_VERSION=$(vmware -v | awk '{print $4}')

The vmware version info comes back as the following on my host:

~ # vmware -v
VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 build-207095
~ # vmware -v | awk '{print $3}'
Server
~ # vmware -v | awk '{print $4}'
3i

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[lamw]

@fdleersn Thanks for helping out, it looks like the change in the case statement did in fact break ESXi 3.5 version checking. I've gone ahead and implemented your solution and will be pushing it up to the development branch. Thanks