This post shows how you can create your very own custom iso image with host specific customizations for a completely unattended ESXi installation

This is a short revisit of an earlier [blog post on automating ESXi installation](/2018/03/27/building-a-pxe-boot-environment-for-esxi/) through PXE booting and Kickstart scripts

This blog post will be building on a previous post where I built a small PXE server environment for ESXi installation. In this post we will enhance the PXE install with customized kickstart files specific for the hardware we want to install. There's two new components to discuss here. The kickstart file (ks.cfg) it …

In our environment we run ESXi primarily on HPE Proliant servers. We use OneView for managing the hardware it self (i.e. monitoring, firmware), but for provisioning ESXi to the servers we have been doing some of it manually and some of it with HPE Insight Control Server Provisioning (ICsp). When preparing for …