4 Sep
2008
4 Sep
'08
6:27 a.m.
I haven't tried esx 3i myself yet, but kickstarting ESX 3 was similar to red hat kickstart with anaconda and stuff, I did all my configuration by hand afterwards because of the trunked/tagged network ports which aren't compatible with PXE, and I surely didn't want to risk an automated install to run with multiple LUNs exposed from the SAN to the system!
Well you don't "install" 3i with this process, you just deploy it and run it. The config is premade, or made at first deploy then extracted and pushed out, so its safe.
Should be fun, this will allow me to free a lun for vmfs instead of the hypervisor and to make upgrades easy to go to and from with.
jlc