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Once you install ESX Server on a system, you can quickly deploy or provision more ESX Server systems that share the same or have similar configurations. You can set up a script to aid in the installation. The script consists of the choices you want to make during the installation of the ESX Server software.

If you want all of your servers to have the same configuration as the original ESX Server system, you should make the same choices for the script that you made when you installed ESX Server on the original system.

The installation can run unattended; however, as in the original installation, if the installer encounters an unknown device on the system, a prompt appears and you must respond to it.

Once you set up the script, you can use it to install ESX Server in one of two ways:

• From the ESX Server CD-ROM in the local CD-ROM drive of the new system.
• Across the network, where installation files are hosted.