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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849684026

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1

3. vSphere Auto Deploy

4. ESXi Image Builder

5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage

7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control

8. Configuring the vSphere Network

9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Configuring vSphere HA

11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1)

Index

Performing a scripted install of the ESXi server

With the help of the Installing ESXi 5.1 recipe, you should now be familiar with the regular interactive installation of the ESXi server. Although the interactive installation is an easy task, it becomes a tedious one when you are deploying servers in a larger environment. This is where a scripted installation could come in handy.

The How to do it... section will guide you through the steps required to perform a scripted installation.

How to do it...

The following are the steps involved in a scripted-installation process:

Boot the server with the ESXi installation CD in the CD/DVD ROM drive.
At the ESXi installer's Loading ESXi installer screen, press Shift + O.
On pressing Shift + O, you would see the default command the installer uses: runweasel.
At this prompt, specify the location of the install script. I have used an FTP location. Local CD ROM, USB driver, HTTP/HTTPS, or NFS are other supported script locations.
The ks script will then locate...