Automatically prepare an ESXi ISO image for PXE booting

March 17, 2014 in Virtualizationism | Permalink

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is now generally available, and the delivery is via VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 1.  For those using a Linux PXE boot server to install ESXi hosts, below is a quick shell script that takes care of everything automatically.

Usage example (all one line):

In order to use the optional ESXi submenu concept, simply add the following to pxelinux.cfg/default

 

 

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