Automated Installation of ESXi

[prangi]

Is there any way to perform esxi installation using automation. Autodeploy is not an option for us. We have some baremetal servers on cloud and we are planning to have our our data center over cloud.

Please advise what way we can choose to automate the installation. We just have management ips of those servers

[Techie01]

Have you tried scripted install method.

Please read following links

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2004582

VMware vSphere 5.1

VMware KB: Methods of installing ESXi 5.5

[unsichtbare]

Scripted install works great. And the Ultimate Deployment Appliance will mount ESXi 6 ISO's and Vendor-customized ISO's!