Re: [Puppet Users] [facter] ESX/vSphere version detection without vmware tools

2012-11-01 Thread Keiran Sweet
Cheers for this, it's given me some food for thought. Given the backwards/forwards compatibility of some versions of VMWare Tools, my issue isn't as serious as I initially thought, however I would like to go down this path long term so that our VM's perform optimally. My only concern with using

Re: [Puppet Users] [facter] ESX/vSphere version detection without vmware tools

2012-10-31 Thread Wolf Noble
Hi Keiran, I wrote this and posted it to the list awhile ago: https://github.com/wolfspyre/vmware_puppetfact there's been some suggestion that the source I used as a basis for this fact is slightly inaccurate, however I don't have a suite of esx servers to test on.. (it's on my list) feel fre

[Puppet Users] [facter] ESX/vSphere version detection without vmware tools

2012-10-31 Thread Keiran Sweet
Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a way to identify (if possible) the ESX/vSphere version that a particular VMWare guest server is running on without the use of vmware tools related commands, such as vmware-checkvm, which does seem to do the trick from what I can gather. [root@server ~]# vmware-chec