If you have earlier versions of vCLI installed on RHEL, you must remove those installations before installing the latest version.

1

Run the uninstall script, for example, if you installed vCLI in the default location, run the following command.

/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl
2

Delete existing versions of vSphere-CLI.xxxx.tar.gz and delete the vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib directory.

Install vCLI on RHEL.