VMware ESXi » History » Version 4
Corey Osman, 12/27/2011 10:19 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 | 4 | Corey Osman | h3. Copy iso contents of ESXi to your media directory (example only) |
| 15 | 1 | Corey Osman | <pre> |
| 16 | 4 | Corey Osman | mount -o loop esxi-iso-file.iso /mnt/iso1 |
| 17 | 4 | Corey Osman | rsync -avz /mnt/iso1/ /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/ |
| 18 | 4 | Corey Osman | </pre> |
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| 20 | 4 | Corey Osman | h3. Copy the esx boot files to your tftp directory |
| 21 | 4 | Corey Osman | <pre> |
| 22 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/mboot.c32 /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
| 23 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/vmkboot.gz /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
| 24 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/vmkernel.gz /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
| 25 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/sys.vgz /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
| 26 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/cim.vgz /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
| 27 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/ienviron.vgz /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
| 28 | 4 | Corey Osman | cp /var/www/html/repos/vmware/esxi4.1/install.vgz /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmware/ |
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| 30 | 2 | Corey Osman | </pre> |
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