VMware Communities: Message List - Fast and easy ESX installer!

Re: Fast and easy ESX installer!

brugh — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:48:12 GMT

it's totally GPL licensed so it's free. but if you want to make a donation for all the time it will save you, let me know

and i didn't post this as a question, so i can't award points. sorry

Re: Fast and easy ESX installer!

azn2kew — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:14:38 GMT

I'll test this appliance but not sure if its commercial license or free. It looks like V-Ployment from Xtravirt but it causes a lot of money for massive ESX deployments and basically it has csv file with all ESX hosts settings and than utilize that settings and deploy to all remote PXE ESX hosts as fast as possible depends on bandwidth. But it does the same thing as UDA though. Curious how good is it so I'm testing it now.

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Fast and easy ESX installer!

brugh — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:43:32 GMT

There's an appliance in the vmware directory that makes installing a set of ESX servers a breeze. It has a script-builder that generates a complete %post scripts in minutes. Also, when importing PXE files, it strips the HBA drivers to protect LUN's from being formatted while installing.

check it out:http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1216