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Still within the vSphere web portal go back to the inventory and highlight your vCenter.

Click the Home icon, additional Auto Deploy options have now appeared.

Log out of the vSphere web client and log back in.

Locate and enable the VMware vSphere ESXi Dump Collector service. The VMware Syslog Collector is enabled by default with versions of vSphere 6.x.

Auto Deploy requires a syslog and ESXi dump collector, these are built into the vCenter installation.

Additional step for vSphere 6.5 only: to allow us to manage Auto Deploy using the GUI we also need to enable the Image Builder service select the Image Builder Service from the list of services.

From the dropdown Actions menu click Edit Startup Type and change to Automatic.

Select Auto Deploy from the list of services.

Browse to Administration > System Configuration > Services.

Open the vSphere web portal and log in with an account that is a member of the System Configuration Administrators group, you may need to use the SSO admin account.

The steps below outline the process for versions 6.0 and 6.5, if you are configuring Auto Deploy on vSphere 6.5 and/or want to use the embedded TFTP server in the vCenter Server Appliance then refer to the vCenter Server Appliance Integrated TFTP Server post, which runs through the process in more detail. From vSphere 6.x onwards Auto Deploy is included in the vCenter management node, it just needs enabling.

#Vmware vsphere 6.5 installation guide install

Previously, in vSphere 5.5, Auto Deploy was a manual install from the vCenter Server installation media. Read through the Auto Deploy Best Practises Guide for vSphere 6.0 or vSphere 6.5. You’ll also need to decide if your hosts should use stateless caching mode, as outlined above. This distributes the load and reduces the strain on the Auto Deploy server.

If you are running a large environment and are likely to be simultaneously booting a high number of hosts at once then you may want to consider using reverse proxy servers. Stateful install is an installation method for deploying ESXi to a local drive on the server to boot from, so has no dependency on the Auto Deploy server post install. The host will continue to boot from the Auto Deploy server, however should the Auto Deploy server be unavailable then the host will fall back to boot from the cached image. With this in mind VMware introduced stateless caching mode, when enabled this works by caching the ESXi image to a local drive (which can simply be a USB drive or SD card). However if one of your ESXi hosts reboots while the Auto Deploy server is down then it won’t be able to boot back up. Initially nothing, don’t forget the Auto Deploy server is only for booting your hosts, so if it goes down it won’t take the hosts with it. What happens if my Auto Deploy server goes down?

ESXi images and deploy rules can be managed using Power CLI or the vSphere web client.

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A vCenter server and Enterprise Plus licensing for your hosts.A syslog collector and ESXi dump collector are required to gather your ESXi logs and crash dumps.An Auto Deploy server to stream the ESXi image.A TFTP server for the host to load the gPXE bootloader from.An Active Directory DNS, DHCP infrastructure already in place, you’ll need to enable DHCP options 66 and 67 so make sure your DHCP server supports this if it isn’t Windows.provisioning of hosts on a mass scale all running the same version of code, huge savings in configuration times for new hosts and a more reliable and stable environment.

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In theory this means there is no requirement for local storage, however we can configure stateless caching or stateful installs for use with a local drive if required.Īfter the initial setup you’ll benefit from quick and easy ESXi deployments, patches, driver updates, etc. When a host is deployed using Auto Deploy the state information is loaded to memory upon boot, the state is not permanently stored on the physical host by default. VMware Auto Deploy works with Host Profiles to provision and customise your ESXi estate.