Manually installing/uninstalling the vCloud Director host agent on an ESXi host

Manually installing the vCloud Director Agent

Note: The installation files are available on each vCloud Director cell in your environment and are located at $VCLOUD_HOME/agent or /opt/vmware/cloud-director/agent.

To manually install the vCloud Director 1.0.x agent on an ESXi host:

1. Copy the installation binary for your platform to the ESXi host using your preferred method, such as shared storage or SCP.
2. Using SSH or Tech Support Mode console on the host, run this command to ensure that the agent installer is executable:chmod 755 vslad-install-esx41-1.0.0.67.bin
   Note: The filename may be different depending on your version of ESXi and vCloud Director.
   For more information on using Tech Support Mode, see Tech Support Mode in ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0 (1017910).
3. Run the installer using this command:./vslad-install-esx41-1.0.0.67.bin

To manually install the vCloud Director 1.5.x agent on an ESXi host: 

1. Copy the installation vib for your platform to the ESXi host using your preferred method, such as shared storage or SCP.
2. Connect to the host using Tech Support Mode, see Tech Support Mode in ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0 (1017910) for more information.
3. Run the installation from where ever the vib is located using this command:

esxcli software vib install vcloudagent-1.5.0-453916.vib

Manually uninstalling the vCloud Director host agent
To manually uninstall the vCloud Director host agent on an ESXi 4.1 host, run this command:/opt/vmware/uninstallers/vslad-uninstall.sh
To manually uninstall the vCloud Director host agent on an ESXi 5.0 host, run this command:
esxcli software vib remove -n vcloud-agent

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