vSphere Auto Deploy can provision hundreds of physical hosts with ESXi software. You can specify the image to deploy and the hosts to provision with the image. Optionally, you can specify host profiles to apply to the hosts, a vCenter Server location (datacenter, folder or cluster), and assign a script bundle for each host.
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Introduction to vSphere Auto Deploy Rules and Rule Sets vCenter Server location, or script object) to provision each host with. vSphere Auto Deploy Boot Process vCenter Server location, and script bundle for that host. Overview of the vSphere Auto Deploy Process by Using the vSphere Web Client vCenter Server services, create deploy rules that provision hosts, and power on your hosts to be booted with the image profile you specify. Overview of the vSphere Auto Deploy Process by Using PowerCLI PowerCLI , write PowerCLI rules that provision hosts, and power on your hosts to be booted with the image profile you specify. You can customize of the image profile, host profile, and vCenter Server location.
