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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

Downloading an ESXi Offline Bundle

To Auto Deploy an ESXi server, we need to have the ESXi Offline Bundle ready. The vanilla version of the offline bundle can be downloaded from the VMware's website. Customized Offline Bundles from the server vendors are available for download from the vendor's website. It is also available at VMware's download page. It is under the Drivers & Tools tab and listed under the category OEM Customized Installer CDs.

How to do it…

You can download the ESXi 5.1 Offline Bundle from VMware's downloads page: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCL-VSP510-ESXI-510-EN&productId=285&rPId=3361.

See the following screenshot that shows the bundle name and details.

Copy the downloaded Offline Bundle ZIP into the machine where vSphere PowerCLI will be Installed. That is, we have to copy it in to a directory C:\AutoDeploy-VIBS.

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