Using vSphere Auto Deploy

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Enabling vSphere's auto deploy service
• Configuring a TFTP server with the files required to PXE boot servers
• Configuring a DHCP server to work with auto deploy
• Preparing the vSphere environment – create host profile, configure the deploy rules and activating them
• Enabling stateless caching
• Enabling stateful install