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ASR - Profiling VMs Issue with PowerCLI
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Wei Ming Li
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Hello everyone,
This is kind of a two part issue that I'm facing when trying to run the ASR tool to profile a list of VMs. I've followed the info located here to set everything up, but I can't run the command to connect to the vCenter server. It gives me the following error:
Connect-VIServer : Could not load file or assembly 'VMware.Vim, Version=7.0.0.2660, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.
I tried installing PowerCLI 6.5 and 12.0, and although they work to connect to vCenter, it shows an error message that PowerCLI is not installed. Obviously, from the Microsoft documentation, it is required to have version 6.0 R3. We're running vCenter and vSphere 6.7.
Does anyone have a clue on what's going on here?
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SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 40,446 Reputation points Microsoft Employee2020-09-10T13:39:15.947+00:00 @Wei Ming Li Thank you for contacting us!
We recommend you to install PowerCLI 6.0 R3, that we validated with this VMware PowerCLI. There is difference in newer versions, 6.0R3, will support VMware 7.0. With the older version of PowerCLI, dependency dlls were added to System GAC but not with the latest versions of PowerCLI.
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Wei Ming Li 1 Reputation point
2020-09-11T00:40:59.45+00:00 I didn't specifically say it, but I initially installed 6.0 R3 and that's what caused the error message when I try to connect to vCenter. On version 6.5 and 12.0, I am able to connect to vCenter but it doesn't detect the PowerCLI install properly.
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SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 40,446 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2020-09-11T06:56:56.9+00:00 @Wei Ming Li The behavior you have observed is unexpected. We may need to investigate the logs to better understand the root cause of the issue. However, scope of forum support is limited and we cannot perform further investigation over a public forum. I recommend you reach out to Azure technical support team by raising a support request. The ticket enables you to work closely with the support engineers and get a quick resolution to your issue.
If you have any limitations on your support plan for raising technical support ticket, Please send an email to Azcommunity@microsoft.com including your Azure Subscription ID and a link to this thread for context and we will gladly connect you with the Azure support channel.
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