This tutorial will guide you through the process of provisioning ESX and ESXi hypervisors.

 

Coming soon: LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 7.0. With enhanced security, faster 64-bit imaging, user extensibility and many other enhancements, LBMP 7.0 ("Buddy Holly" release) will also do bare metal provisioning of these new additional distros and platforms: RHEL/CentOS 7.x, ESXi 6.x, Debian 8.x, Ubuntu 14.xx/15.xx/16.xx, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x, Fedora 2x and more.

 

Contact us for more details and early access. And enjoy LBMP 6.6 ("Chuck Berry"release) in the meantime!

 

Video Tutorial: Cisco Server Provisioner: Provision VMware ESXi 5 (3:39)

 

This tutorial describes the steps needed to remotely install ESXi on client systems (typically servers and blades) using EPM, the optional ESX Provisioning Module:

 

1)Prepare the ISO media and create "Install Instances" using Cisco-supplied scripts

2)Prepare Provisioning Roles using the browser-based Graphical User Interface

3)Power up the Client System to be provisioned

 

Please refer to the Application Programming Interface (API) tutorial to integrate Cisco Server Provisioner's functions into your IT application.

 

 

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