Add host to Virutal Centre & Cluster using Kickstart

[Stuarty1874]

Guys, is it possible to add an ESX 3 host in to Virtual Centre, then add the host to a Cluster using a kickstart script?

I was hoping that it might be possible via the %POST% section of my ks config file.

Thanks in advance

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Your kickstart script would need to use the VI Perl Toolkit to do this.... It would require hardcoding passwords into the kickstart or the VI Perl Toolkit script.... But there is no tool directly available on the ESX server to do this.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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