https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Automation-SDK-for-Perl/Automated-deployment/m-p/2963802#M11 <P>ok everyone, I don't know where to post this one and the only thing I can find for automation is "SDK for Perl Discussions" but I'm not trying to use perl...</P><P>I'm so very new to ESXi and have been trying to automate deployments because my new job requires me to install ESXi on machines, send them out to serve their purpose for a week, when they return, I wipe and reimage. I know you are able to setup a PXE to image them, but I would like to take it a little further.</P><P>So is it possible to do the following...</P><P>During the PXE boot, it runs a script that will look at VNIC0 to see what the MAC address is, based on the MAC address it will jump to a part of the script for specific deployment configurations (IE: IP address, username addition, etc...), but deploy to a specific NVME drive (I believe all of them have the same NVME drives but I need to install to a 128GB drive, not the other larger ones)</P><P>I'm not asking anyone to do all the work for me, please point me in the right direction. I'm having a hard time following the documentation because am a visual / hands on learner and have a hard time focusing on reading, I don't need a DHCP server but that's all I seem to be finding online.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:57:46 GMT n2ocharged 2023-04-14T00:57:46Z https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Automation-SDK-for-Perl/Automated-deployment/m-p/2963802#M11 <P>ok everyone, I don't know where to post this one and the only thing I can find for automation is "SDK for Perl Discussions" but I'm not trying to use perl...</P><P>I'm so very new to ESXi and have been trying to automate deployments because my new job requires me to install ESXi on machines, send them out to serve their purpose for a week, when they return, I wipe and reimage. I know you are able to setup a PXE to image them, but I would like to take it a little further.</P><P>So is it possible to do the following...</P><P>During the PXE boot, it runs a script that will look at VNIC0 to see what the MAC address is, based on the MAC address it will jump to a part of the script for specific deployment configurations (IE: IP address, username addition, etc...), but deploy to a specific NVME drive (I believe all of them have the same NVME drives but I need to install to a 128GB drive, not the other larger ones)</P><P>I'm not asking anyone to do all the work for me, please point me in the right direction. I'm having a hard time following the documentation because am a visual / hands on learner and have a hard time focusing on reading, I don't need a DHCP server but that's all I seem to be finding online.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:57:46 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Automation-SDK-for-Perl/Automated-deployment/m-p/2963802#M11 n2ocharged 2023-04-14T00:57:46Z