Matt Oswalt of Keeping It Classless comments:
I recently had a need to deploy quite a few ESXi hosts on top of Cisco UCS B-Series blades (60+) back-ended by Netapp storage. I needed some kind of method to do this quickly so that I didn’t have to spend days just installing ESXi.
Here were some of the design guidelines:
This is a great mashup of using AutoDeploy with Powershell to automate deployment of resources. You know, the kind of stuff we had to do by hand before software changed everything, right?
Read more at: Mass ESXi Deployment using Auto Deploy, Boot from SAN, and PowerShell