I'll start off by saying Perl is not one of my strong scripting langs. The following is using bash wrappers around perl to create guests via vmcreate.pl:
Has anyone found a way to pass the HW version through this perl script? We have multiple clusters and we are not ready to force an entire team of engineers off vSphere client into the sluggish web interface.
Currently we use vmcreate.pl to create guests on clustered and non-clustered esxi5.0/5.1/5.5 hosts. VMX-10 is the default created guest on 5.5 and it's basically killing the use of this wrapper. VMWorkstation and standalone converter are not options as a workaround and editing the HW version config var in the .vmx seems like a dirty workaround. I don't have the option of using the PowerCLI so it has to be scripted from *nix. Any insight on how people have dealt with this is greatly appreciated.
Target: vmx-8 for all guests created via vmcreate.pl.
Thanks in adavnce.