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Mass ESXi Deployment using Auto Deploy, Boot from SAN, and PowerShell

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:

 Mass ESXi Deployment using Auto Deploy, Boot from SAN, and PowerShell

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?

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