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Month: February 2019

Provisioning ESXi Hosts with Auto Deploy

February 7, 2019 Jonny vCSA, VMware, vSphere

As far as a TLDR goes, Auto Deploy is a VMware feature that allows taking a bare metal host, PXE booting into ESXi, applying configuration and bringing it, as a working, fully configured host; into

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Performing Scripted ESXi Installation

February 5, 2019 Jonny ESXi, VMware, vSphere

Interactive installations of ESXi are great in theory but what about when the datacenter scales in size? There are a few options when it comes to automating ESXi installation- one is the scripted installation. Scripted

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Upgrade vCSA from 6.5 to 6.7 with CLI Installer

February 4, 2019 Jonny vCenter, vCSA, VMware, vSphere

Or is it “automate all the things”? Here’s a run down of a little bit of both. CLI vCenter Server Appliance upgrades starts at the same place as with a GUI install. Download the vCSA

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Deploy Additional Embedded vCSAs with CLI Installer

February 1, 2019 Jonny Microsoft Windows, vCSA, VMware, vSphere

I’ve been toying with automated and scripted deployments of vCSAs and ESXi recently so thought I’d do a quick run through deploying an additional embedded vCSA in Enhanced Linked Mode via CLI. This topology is

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Remove Enhanced Link Mode vCenters from Inventory with cmsso-util

February 1, 2019 Jonny vCenter, vCSA, VMware

Setting up Enhanced Linked Mode is easy and almost mandatory for bigger environments; but what about when things go wrong? Dead vCenter instances in your inventory is, if nothing else, unsightly. Here’s how you can

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