Automation of ESXi5.1 through script

[Trupti123]

I need to automate ESXi 5.1 installation from a powershell script.

For This to understand how PXE works we done with setup of DHCP on Virtual m/c having Windows 2008 R2 and TFTP server on Ubuntu 11.10 nd also PXE setup on Ubuntu virtual m/c.

Now using PXe setup i need to automate ESXi5.1 installation through script.

Not getting how to start..?

[Sreejesh_D]

vSphere auto deploy is the advanced form of unattended/scripted installation. vSphere Auto Deploy can provision hundreds of physical hosts with ESXi software. You can specify the image to deploy and the hosts to provision with the image.

It can be configures with the existing PXE setup you have. You can find more details on it from the following links.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200513...

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/10/vsphere-5-1-auto-deploy-overview-videos.html

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vsphere-5-1-auto-deploy-stateless-caching-and-stateful-insta...

[Trupti123]

Need to write a script for ths..