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sanshis
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AutoDeploy - Enable stateful installs to a USB disk on the host

Hi all

I am trying to boot our servers using stateful installs on usb.... Earlier i had tested this with option "Stateful installs on host" that was working fine and server was booting with local disk... but with this option its not getting booted with USB.. Infact its not even dumping/overwriting the usb disk..

  in host profile i have selected the option "Enable stateful installs to a USB disk on the host"

Before reboot non-compliance message is same as earlier.. "host does not appear to be in stateful environment"

i have checked BIOS settings for usb booting..  i am not sure if we have to format usb in some specific Format.

Please guide me ahead..

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Thanks and Regards

Sanshis

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MarVista
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In some situations, it is useful to provision hosts with Auto Deploy and to perform all subsequent boots from disk. This approach is called Stateful Installs.

1

Set up your environment for Auto Deploy and install PowerCLI.

See Preparing for vSphere Auto Deploy.

2

Verify that a disk with at least 1GB of free space is available.

If the disk is not partitioned, partitioning happens when you apply the host profile.

3

Set up the host to boot from disk.

See your hardware vendor's documentation.

Hope this helped . Let me know if you need further help .

Yours,
Mar Vista

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