While the stateless caching feature is predominantly built to tackle disk specific limitations on server hardware, the stateful install mode is more of a legacy installation through PXE mechanism. Apart from the installation procedure that is set to scale, it mimics the attributes of a standard manual installation. In this recipe, we shall walk through the steps to enable stateful install.
Enabling stateful install
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.
- Click on Enable stateful install on the host or Enable stateful install to a...