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Using Auto Deploy to image ESXi hosts

Using Auto Deploy to image ESXi hosts - vSphere Tutorial

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Using Auto Deploy to image ESXi hosts

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- [Rick] In this video we'll learn about how Auto Deploy can be used to automatically deploy new ESXi hosts. So the purpose of auto Deploy is to allow you to plug in a Bare-Metal ESXi host and have an ESXi image, and a configuration automatically installed on that ESXi host. So let's take a look at how it works. The first component that you need to set up, if you're going to be configuring auto deploy is a DHCP server. And so as the Bare-Metal ESXi host boots up, it'll send out a DHCP request. And it'll get an IP address and the address of a TFTP server from the DHCP server. So really the only configuration that we need with this Bare-Metal host is to configure it to do a DHCP request upon boot, and now it gets an address and the address of a TFTP server from the DHCP server. And so now the ESXi host will reach out to the TFTP server and it'll get a PXE boot file. And the PXE boot file is basically just enough…

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