Nice article Kenneth. Nice article. No worky on ESXi 4. Tried with a brand new USB stick and same thing. Downloading the Dell customized image and see if that changes anything. Nice Article. Great work Kenneth! I could piece the 2 methods together script install a host, then port over the binaries and boot to PXE stateless after the fact.. I am doing testing on both PXE script install and PXE boot diskless and wondered what your thoughts were on combining them. I will keep you updated to any useful results.
First of all, yeah there is definitely a way to do a stateless install of ESX in which ESX is only running from memory. For IIS6.
Very good post. A sidenote, you have to use the same version of pxelinux as the isolinux-version of esxi4. Currently ver 3. I started out with version 4. All the storage presentation are all ready in place on the enclosure so when the esx builds occur i want them to already have the mac block size set. Thought I share them with you guys Probably most stuff can be done by using the vimsh cli but the scripts might be useful for other people trying out the MOB interface via python.
One thing maybe you could help with - I've got the esxupdate update bundle command working fine but I cannot get the host to exit maintenance mode after. No errors from the script and it works manually too. So I am currently looking at deploying multiple ESXi servers to remote sites.
This may be a long shot but ultimately what we would want to do is just rack the servers and when we power them on have someone at the site just type the site number into an input prompt and then from there have it completely automated and joined to vCenter with no interaction at all.
This is a long shot and may not be so simple to do but would help us not like at Hyper-V or other solutions for virtualizing the sites. If you have any recommendations at all that would be great. I ran into this issue with ESXi kickstart install process where my system has several nic interfaces and when the VMkernel first comes alive and tries to download the ks.
Nic2 is the only active interface and since this is on a chassis we develop there is no wires to move around either to make eth0 working. All I want is for the server to boot from pxe and load the files, then let me choose which disk I want to use.
Is there a boot command to do that, without using ks. This line is not going to work with ESXi 5. The output format of nslookup has changed. I've fixed this on the ESXi 5.
One of my goals during the vSphere 5. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Home Lab Nested Virtualization Apple. Share this Comments Wow.. Diederik, nicType describes the type of VMKernel traffic such as "management", "vmotion" and "faultTolerance", this is not the name of a portgroup.
Thanks for Tip 12! I thought I was going crazy! Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks again! Hey William, I ran into this issue with ESXi kickstart install process where my system has several nic interfaces and when the VMkernel first comes alive and tries to download the ks. I tried this setup now, and it works fine into the install, but it fails with the following message. Any tips on how to fix it? I have removed the mod.
Found I needed to use version 3. If like me you followed these directions and received the error that mboot was not a valid image than it is an issue with UNetBooting. It appears that the new version uses a buggy Syslinux.
I was able to fix the issue by using Unetbootin version Why do all UNIX instructions have to be so damn hard! Why can unix sites not give you one image file to download that you can write out in one command line. I think you guys like to make peoples lives hard. The install works ok, states it needs to boot up however, it then starts going through the install again upon the server rebooting.
Any thoughts? This worked flawlessly, but only once I used unetbootin-windows, the latest ver did NOT work! See the below for more info. Excellent post. Like another user I had to use the unetbootin-windows exe to load up properly. Great documentation, thanks! After that appears, it just hangs. I have downloaded the ESXi twice, but still no luck.
Any suggestions? Jonathan, Thanks for this nice article. So far I tried ESXi 5. Also look out for Dell specific ESXi drivers for version 5.
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