My quest for statelessness went one step further today, when I seemingly PXE booted ESX 3i. I say seemingly because I didn’t actually run up any VM’s on it – I did however join it to VirtualCenter, create a vSwitch and browsed it’s datastore, so it’s all looking pretty promising.
I’m not suggesting that such a [...]
In this video I show a semi-distributed VirtualCenter install (ie database is not local) using the command in the earlier post, and go through the database setup as well. I am by no means a DBA, so no doubt there is more that can be done to tune the database than what I show in [...]
Capacity planner is rather pesky to have hanging around on every VirtualCenter box in the enterprise… especially if you use some other tool for the job! So just add this line to the end of your VirtualCenter install script:
msiexec /qn /x {2A2750C9-E14E-4635-8595-C1CD214445B0}
and away she goes!
Altenatively, you can simply hide it from the Virtual Infrastructure client [...]
As with VC 2.0, the unattended install documentation for 2.5 is rather scant. Like most people in large enterprises, I have the requirement to silently install VC, pointing it at a non-local license server and database, and without update manager (separation is for 2 reasons: (1) VUM could be updated out of line with VirtualCenter [...]
