In continuation of the previous recipe, an administrator can control if the ESXi hosts boots from the auto deploy on every instance of reboot, or perform an installation through auto deploy and have subsequent reboots to load image from disks. The option to toggle between stateless and stateful is performed by amending the host profile setting. In this recipe, we shall walk through the steps to enable stateless caching.
Enabling stateless caching
How to do it...
- Log in to vCenter Server.
- Navigate to Home | Host Profiles.
- Select the host profile and click on Edit host profile.
- Expand Advanced Configuration Settings and navigate to System Image Cache Configuration as shown here:
- Select on Enable stateless caching on the...