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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684026
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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

Configuring a TFTP server with Auto Deploy files


A TFTP server is a remote storage that will be used to store configuration or boot files. The TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) requires no authentication. More details and a protocol walkthrough is available at its wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol.

A TFTP server will be contacted during the Auto Deploy process for PXE-booting the server on which ESXi will be deployed. Hence we need to deploy a TFTP server and configure it with a gPXE boot image and the configuration files.

There are many freeware TFTP servers on the internet to choose from. I have deployed WinAgents TFTP server manager.

http://www.winagents.com/en/products/tftp-server/

The installation of the TFTP server manager is pretty straightforward. Make sure it is installed on a Windows machine and the service is started before you begin.

How to do it…

The following steps will help you configure the TFTP server to facilitate PXE booting:

  1. Deploy...

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