I was wondering if anyone has ever come across a tool (web interface / win32 gui / whatever) that would allow me to mass deploy a number of vm's from an existing template. Ideally the tool would talk to VC and instructs it to deploy 10 instances of that given template. All vm's would need to be sysprepped with DHCP and with a standard windows machine name (i.e. APPLXYZVMxxx) so that at the end of the process I have APPLXYZVM000, APPLXYZVM001, ............APPLXYZVM009.
This would allow me to avoid going through n times a standard vm deployment on the standard VC interface.
Anyone using something like that ?
Massimo.
I only know about the following tools
1.) Uli Tool
http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/ullbergm/2007/10
2.) Fastscale
3. ardence (now citrix )
4. Vmware will bring a tool with linked clones. It was in a vmware world 2007 presentation
Check out lab manager.
Massimo
Lab Manager will do what you want to do, not too sure on how well it will scale, I have often thought that coupling of this product with a Broker would be a fantastic solution, for VDI
Kind Regards
Tom,
I only know about the following tools
1.) Uli Tool
http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/ullbergm/2007/10
2.) Fastscale
3. ardence (now citrix )
4. Vmware will bring a tool with linked clones. It was in a vmware world 2007 presentation
Uli's tool seems to be exactly (well almost) what I was looking for .......
Thanks for the other hints but Lab Manager / Ardence is really going to be a bazooka to shoot a fly for this circumstance.
Massimo.
I to am looking for a way to do mass deployments of VM's. Somewhere between 300-400 per month.
Can someone point me in the right direction for downloading Magnus Ulberg's Deployment Tool??
Right now it is just an internal tool that i developed to make life easier for myself when tasked to deploy a bunch of machines.
It still has some issues to resolve and i would also have to check with the boss to see if i would be allowed to post the app out there since it was developed on company time.
If you are looking at that many deployments it may be worth looking for a commercial tool with enterprise support. Since this tool would come with no support at all ![]()
Thanks,
Magnus Ullberg
Magnus,
Thank you for your quick response. I was hoping this was available as a
download. Guess I am not that lucky.
I'll let you know when i'm ready for someone to test it, there are a couple of things i have to get done berfore i can sit down and work on the tool again but once that is done i'll be back coding ![]()
Hello King,
what about a bash script.... ?
One of the author is sbeaver
here's the ch.4 subjects.....
Chapter 4 Building a VM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Creation of Virtual Machines
Utilizing Command-Line Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Creation of a Virtual Machine Configuration File . . . . .141
Creating Your Virtual Machine Configuration File . .143
Creation of a Virtual Machine Disk File . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Registering Virtual Machines with ESX Server . . . . . .149
Scripting Creation of Virtual Machines in ESX Shell . . . . .150
Scripting Creation of Virtual Machines in Perl Scripts . . . .157
Modifying Scripted VM Creation with Perl . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Perl Script Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
VmPerl Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
Cloning Virtual Machines Utilizing ESX Shell Scripts . . . .171
Cloning Virtual Machines Utilizing VmPerl Scripts . . . . . .176
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
HTH
regards
aleph
http://virtualaleph.blogspot.com
