Installing VMware vSphere Command Line Interface 6.7 fails on machines which does not have direct internet access

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• installing VMware vSphere Command Line Interface 6.7 fails on linux machines(Eg. RHEL)
• Hosting machine does not have direct internet access

Cause

This issue occurs due the Installer checking internet availability but will not consider proxy environment.

Resolution

To solve this issue. modify vmware-install.pl by commenting out following sentences and append "$internet_available = 1;" to it.
 

# Determine if internet connection is available.
#   if ( ( ! $install_rhel55_local ) && ( scalar(@install) > 0 ) ) {
#       my $internetConnect = `ping -c 10 -W 4 www.vmware.com | grep -c "64 bytes"`;
#       if ( $internetConnect ne '') {
#         $internet_available = ($internetConnect > 3 ) ? 1:0;
#       }
#   }
$internet_available = 1;