Deploying ESXi 5.x using the Scripted Install feature

Unfortunately I had no chance to design and implement automated vSphere deployment for any customer. I tried several automated deployment possibilities in the lab but I have never met the customer with such requirement. That's probably because right now I do vSphere consulting for small country in the middle of Europe where 32 ESX farm is "PRETTY BIG" vSphere environment ;-)
 
Nevertheless, excellent VMware KB article about PXE & KickStart file method of ESXi scripted installation is here.

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