Autodeploy 5.1 stateful installation - Problem determining "disk"

[sherlock_holmes]

Hello,

I just finished up setting VMware Autodeploy on our environment which involves Cisco UCS.

Currently, I am able to boot the ESXi on B200 M3 blades through STATELESS installations. Our requirement is to configure a STATEFUL installation and so I was looking at various documentations (VMware vSphere 5.1) for configuring STATEFUL installations. The thing I am getting confused is the "Arguments for the first disk" in the host profiles. What exact parameter should I provide it over here so that the ESXi is booted from the BootLUN (5 GB) that is attached to the ESXi host. I have attached a boot lun of 5GB to the ESXi host and want the ESXi to be installed there. How can I make sure that autodeploy won't overwrite or install it over the other existing LUNs.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Nik

[shaggy_041086]

1) Select "Stateful Install" from drop down menu in host profile.

2) Use "remote" in "Arguments for first disk" field

As the field says, it is asking for a path to search for first disk. So make sure your boot LUN (5GB) is the first disk attached to your HBAs (SCSI ID 0)