Comments on: Setting up vSphere ESXi 4.1 Scripted Installation

By: Kenneth van Ditmarsch

Kenneth van Ditmarsch — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:13:34 +0000

Yes there is: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/11/11/changing-the-block-size-of-your-local-vmfs-during-the-install/

By: techstarts

techstarts — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:07:37 +0000

Check out how you can do for ESXi 5.0 now at vcp5.wordpress.com. Thanks your article inspired me to do one for ESXi5.0. Comments welcomed

By: Ronan

Ronan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:48:43 +0000

Hi,

is there a way I can include a 8mb block size for pre-presented SAN storage in the kickstart file? 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.

Thanks

Ro,

By: Anders Hansen

Anders Hansen — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:04:30 +0000

Very good post. A sidenote, you have to use the same version of pxelinux as the isolinux-version of esxi4.1u1 is using. Currently ver 3.63. I started out with version 4.04 and that did not work.

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By: Christian Mohn

Christian Mohn — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:53:50 +0000

For IIS6.1 (Windows Server 2008 R2), the mime extension above doesn’t work. Add * as application/octet-stream instead.

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By: Kenneth van Ditmarsch

Kenneth van Ditmarsch — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:41:26 +0000

Hi Rico,

Thanks. First of all, yeah there is definitely a way to do a stateless install of ESX (in which ESX is only running from memory).
Please take a look at this appliance that is capable of doing that and is capable of automatically add the deployed, stateless, ESXi host to the vCenter inventory
http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmware-auto-deploy

Good luck!
Kenneth