ADS or RDP to Deploy ESX

[markuk]

Hi,

We have purchased some blades which will have ESX 3.5 installed on them with some local VM's for a testing Environment. Has any one used either ADS or RDP to create an image of the host (and VM's) and deploy them to other blades?

If I image an ESX blade and then deploy it to other blades will there be any issues? Is there an ESX equivalent to Sysprep?

Thanks

MarkUK

[admin]

I am using neither and have opted for using the UDA to deploy ESX 3.x to the blades. I much easier option for me.

[daniel_uk]

Mark, for a Vmware or linux environment you need to use a kickstart build or KS.cfg file which is similar to an unattended file. Resource should be available on the forums with how you run post scripts, within altiris it will probably have scripts for Redhat which is almost the same.

I recommend testing this first due to knowing of people wiping VMFS luns during the build process.

Thanks

Dan

[markuk]

Thanks i will take a look and see what I can find.

[admin]

You can use this in your .cfg oncce you have identified your LUNS...ie

1. To Prevent SAN LUN wipeout

ignoredisk -drives=sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde