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SaurabhKothari
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Commands dont work in ESXi 6.0 Kickstart File

Experts,

I am unable to have the datastore name changed via KS file.

%firstboot --interpreter=busybox

cd /tmp

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'VM Network' vSwitch0

dsname=$(hostname -s)

/bin/vim-cmd hostsvc/datastore/rename datastore1 "$dsname"_local

Please Assist.

Thanks,

Saurabh

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DavoudTeimouri
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Read this KB: Deploying ESXi 5.x using the Scripted Install feature (2004582) | VMware KB

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