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EsxMagicWand deploy VMs on ESXi hypervisors and starts a PXE installation

$ gem install esxmagicwand

• Create a VM conf as following. Replace example values. File centos6_1.conf:

  [dhcp-server]
  ip=DHCP_SERVER_IP
  port=7911
  
  [esx-server]
  ip=ESX_SERVER_IP
  user=root
  password=ROOT_PASSWORD
  datastore=datastore1
  
  [vm]
  name=CentOS6
  size=20000
  cpus=1
  memory=3000
  os_type=centos64Guest
  network1=VM Network
  network2=Vlan 100
  
  lease_name=centos6_test1
  ip=192.168.20.2
  mask=255.255.255.0
  pxe_path=centos6/pxelinux.0

• Deploy

  $ deploy_vm centos6_1.conf

• Undeploy

  $ undeploy_vm centos6_1.conf