Automate esx install

Do you have any idea for the real scenario? Thanks in advance. Hi Jawad, this is more for building a nested ESXi server. If you want to automate the install of ESXi best to use the kickstart script. Hi David Thank you so much for your answer and your video. Did you work with BOOT. I have tried to use BOOT. CFG put path of ks.

Do you have any idea? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Below are instructions including a reference Kickstart example that folks can use as a starting point. I personally use Unetbootin for this process and the tool is multi-platform which is also really nice. Do not eject or unplug the device after the flashing has completed. CFG which tells ESXi to not start the default interactive installer but rather a scripted install and look for the Kickstart file in the root of the USB device, which we will create in the next step.

CFG it must be all capitalized on the root USB device which will contain the ESXi installation configuration and any additional automation you wish to run. For more advanced automation, please see the references noted earlier. For now, i follow the console based setup on to a vmdk. William, maybe I missed something, but if you install ESXi on the same USB drive from which you have booted, this would mean you cannot reuse it for future reinstallation?

You would then need to recreate a new USB with unetbootin, edit boot. Yes, that's correct. The point here is that you can automate a single or many installations. My example showed installing on the same USB key as that's quite common for home labs. Open the newly created USB installer drive and locate the boot. Open the file in the text editor of your choice and locate the following line:. The script is merely a template that will need to be edited in order for it to work for your organization's environment.

XXX, should be modified to reflect the hostname, domain, and network settings information that will be unique to that ESXi server. After that information is entered, save the file as KS. Besides the aforementioned network and hostname configuration, the script auto accepts the VMware EULA and identifies the first storage disk s on the server and formats them before installing the ESXi system files on them.

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