VMware Auto Deploy plug-in
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 5:46 PM | Share Article VMware has released a plug-in for their Auto Deploy solution in vSphere 5. In the beta testing and 'What's New demos' that we have setup we found that it was tough to setup and configure due to the command line requirements and the fact that it was new to us. As with everything in VCO, life gets a little simpler when you can 'orchestrate' it.
Does it make me a nerd that I find this plugin extremely sexy?
The Auto Deploy plug-in allows simplified and automated provisioning of physical hosts with ESXi software by interacting with Auto Deploy server. The user is able to browse rules and rule sets defined within the Auto Deploy server, configured public depots and all available host profiles within the vCenter Server that can be used. The plug-in provides a set of pre-defined workflows for Auto Deploy hosts configuration, public depots configuration, rules management, answer files management and reprovisioning of ESXi hosts.
Using Auto Deploy plug-in together with vCenter Server plug-in users can benefit from pre-defines workflows by decreasing the effort and time of provisioning and reprovisioning of stateless hosts with ESXi software.
More info about VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vSphere Auto Deploy: release notes, documentation and download