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bklynjames
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Rollout of 20 ESX Servers

Hello All

I have to rollout 20 ESX 3.0 servers and would like to either Ghost or script the actual build of the ESX server. Could someone reccomend a way of doing this. This would also include the partitioning of the machien. Im open to just about anything....

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virtech
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IMHO scripting is the way to go. There are several examples on the forums of build scripts and partition sizes.

Do a search on ks.cfg

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daniel_uk
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What platforms? Do you have HP RDP? If yes then it has the facility to deploy ESX to HP platforms built in.

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TomHowarth
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in fact any of the Altiris derivitants will do this, including the Dell and IBM versions.

it is fairly straight forward to do this.

Tom Howarth VCP / VCAP / vExpert
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