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KyleWeir
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‎09-29-2011 07:46 AM
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Kickstart - adding to vcenter

I want to have my ESXi 5 blades added automatically to vcenter. I found a pearlscript online which says it will add the server to vcenter for ESXi 4.0/4.1 etc.. but there's no mention of ESXi5 and I was hoping to see if there was a better way as the pearlscript seems like a hack (no offence to anyone) I was wondering if esxcli or vim-cmd or if there was something else that could connect it into the vcenter>>

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lamw
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‎09-29-2011 07:56 AM
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If you want to leverage native kickstart, the only option is using some python and nifty calls to vSphere MOB as documented here - http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/03/how-to-automatically-add-esxi-host-to.html (this should also work for ESXi 5, as there is no change in those call from 4.x)

There's no method that I'm aware of today using esxcli or vim-cmd, those are local host operations and do not talk to vCenter.

The alternative is to use a tool from VMware called Auto Deploy which is new with vSphere 5 using a stateless deployment and it has hooks to automatically join a vCenter cluster defined by you. It requires the use of Enterprise + and host profiles to customize the host and then join it to vCenter.

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lamw
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‎09-29-2011 07:56 AM
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If you want to leverage native kickstart, the only option is using some python and nifty calls to vSphere MOB as documented here - http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/03/how-to-automatically-add-esxi-host-to.html (this should also work for ESXi 5, as there is no change in those call from 4.x)

There's no method that I'm aware of today using esxcli or vim-cmd, those are local host operations and do not talk to vCenter.

The alternative is to use a tool from VMware called Auto Deploy which is new with vSphere 5 using a stateless deployment and it has hooks to automatically join a vCenter cluster defined by you. It requires the use of Enterprise + and host profiles to customize the host and then join it to vCenter.

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