I downloaded VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.0.0-2503617.x86_64.tar.gz from here:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCLI600&productId=491
Unfortunately that page doesn't suggest a specific distro that can run vcli.
I unpacked and ran the installer on an Ubuntu 16.04.1-LTS VM. I installed dependencies, but it complained that some modules were the wrong version:
Module: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Version: 6.96
Module: Module::Build, Version: 0.4205
Module: Net::FTP, Version: 2.77
Module: LWP, Version: 5.837
I told it to continue and it installed a load of stuff from CPAN, but got stuck at SOAP::Lite and never progressed - I left it for a good hour.
So I looked at a Red Hat EL7.2 machine and its version of those perl modules was much older; I thought that RHEL7.2 would be an obvious choice as a platform for this. Obviously not.
Please can anyone help who has installed this and had it running?
thanks