It most likely means that you are using a version of esxi that doesn't have all the feature enabled, such as the free version of the esxi or possibly a time limited or trial version.
The plugin is designed to work with vSphere - talking to a vCenter. ESXi standalone exposes the same API, but it may be more limited under certain conditions. On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 2:18:52 AM UTC-7, Kishore RP wrote: > > using jenkins, am trying to do some operations using the vmware vSphere > plugin(https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/vSphere+Cloud+Plugin) > on a esxi5.0 server. > > am getting the below error, does it mean that the vsphere plugin does not > work on esxi5.0? > > *13:55:26* org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.tools.VSphereException: > com.vmware.vim25.RestrictedVersion*13:55:26* at > org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.tools.VSphere.takeSnapshot(VSphere.java:397)*13:55:26* > at > org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.builders.TakeSnapshot.takeSnapshot(TakeSnapshot.java:84)*13:55:26* > at > org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.builders.TakeSnapshot.perform(TakeSnapshot.java:68) > > > Regards > > Kishore > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/e91d7c7f-d216-44eb-b6fe-15072c873423%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
