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Corey Osman, 12/27/2011 10:14 PM
| 1 | 1 | Corey Osman | h1. How to Provision a VMware ESXi server using foreman |
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| 3 | 1 | Corey Osman | Although puppet will not run under ESX server we can still use foreman to kickstart the server using PXE. |
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| 5 | 1 | Corey Osman | h2. Summary of what you need to do: |
| 6 | 1 | Corey Osman | # Copy iso contents of ESXi to your media directory |
| 7 | 1 | Corey Osman | # Copy the esx boot files to your tftp directory |
| 8 | 1 | Corey Osman | # Create a ESX operating system in foreman |
| 9 | 1 | Corey Osman | # Create a ESX partition table (optional) template |
| 10 | 1 | Corey Osman | # Create a ESX kickstart template in foreman |
| 11 | 1 | Corey Osman | # Create a ESX pxe or gpxe template for ESX in foreman |
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| 14 | 2 | Corey Osman | <pre> |
| 15 | 1 | Corey Osman | LABEL ESXi4u1HP-x86_64 |
| 16 | 1 | Corey Osman | kernel /images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/mboot.c32 |
| 17 | 1 | Corey Osman | MENU LABEL ESXi4u1HP-x86_64 |
| 18 | 3 | Corey Osman | append images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/vmkboot.gz ks=http://10.0.x.x/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64 --- images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/vmkernel.gz --- images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/sys.vgz --- images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/cim.vgz --- images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/ienviron.vgz --- images/ESXi4u1HP-x86_64/install.vgz |
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