Auto Deploy and Bulk Licensing
There are a couple of ways in which you can assign license keys to hosts that you can provisioned with Auto Deploy. You can use the traditional method of assigning…
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There are a couple of ways in which you can assign license keys to hosts that you can provisioned with Auto Deploy. You can use the traditional method of assigning…
Once you have your Auto Deploy Server infrastructure configured, and you have your customised image profile, the next step is to create your deployment rules. Deployment rules are used to…
Image Builder A set of Image Builder cmdlets are included in PowerCLI for vSphere 5. These cmdlets allow you to create custom ESXi images which can include updates, vendor software…
The vSphere Auto Deploy Server is user for provisioning ESXi hosts. It uses a PXE boot service combined with vSphere host profiles to provision and customize hosts. It is a…
In order to install PowerCLI you need to have a supported version of .Net installed, a supported OS and a supported version of Powershell installed. You can read the release…
Using the ESXCLI interface in ESXi 5 allows you to manage many host operations, and can be very useful in troubleshooting situations. All the ESXCLI commands use the same structure.…
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a component that enables support for heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter Server. You can check out the release notes here. I’ve recently installed it in…
LUN masking can be used to block a hosts access to a storage device or to prevent an ESXi host from using a particular storage path. This can be useful…
VLANs use the 802.1Q standard to tag traffic as associated with a particular VLAN. There are three main ways of using VLANs with vSphere: Virtual guest tagging (VGT) – requires…
Profile Driven Storage is a feature that allows you to ‘describe’ storage capabilities such as capacity, performance, replication etc. This is basically ‘tagging’ storage/datastores with certain characteristics, either supplied by…
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