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ESX Deployment Appliance (EDA)

EDA is an appliance dedicated to deploying ESX servers fast and easy. It has a scriptbuilder to quickly create %postscripts.

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ESX Deployment Appliance (EDA) is a small and easy to use appliance that makes deploying ESX servers a breeze. It has a very intuitive web-interface that can configure and deploy dozens of ESX servers in minutes. It has a script-builder that will allow any admin to create %post-scripts that will do most anything one needs to get the ESX hosts up and running! Even if deploying with RDP/Altiris or the UDA, this script-builder can help setting those up very quickly.

To set it up, just attach a ESX3 iso to it. It will automatically mount it and with one click, import the PXE bootfiles and strip the HBA drivers to do a save install while SAN LUNs are attached!

It also shares files with samba which makes getting files to the ESX host during installation very easy. the scriptbuilder will insert the correct scriptpieces to read files from the DL share (this is a readonly share). to put files on the EDA, go to the DL$ share (with the dollarsign) as root user.

This appliance is still in beta stage because there's a todo list. But it's fully functional and has been tested to work at least on HP DL380's, BL460, BL480 and Dell 2950 servers.

Todo:
- configure samba passwords trough webinterface
- md5 encrypt root password in ks file (makepasswd --crypt-md5 --clearfrom=file)
- editable base ks.cfg file
- use of fqdn vs. hostname
- bulk import/export/remove
- /etc/hosts for HA

Documentation for this appliance will start once it leaves the beta stage.

Last updated: 04/16/2008

Operating system: Ubuntu 7.10 JeOS (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1136)

Applications installed:
Apache2 dhcpd syslinux

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 165 MB
Torrent available: No
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Primary account
Username: root
Password: root

Memory allocated: 160 MB

License: GPL

Submitted by: brugh


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