Solution Guide

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Storage Utilization (Consolidated) Report ....................................................................... 79
CPU and Memory Utilization Showback Report .................................................................. 79
Appendix A—Deployment Activities .................................................................................. 82
Verifying Active System Manager Services ....................................................................... 82
Appendix B—Build of Materials ........................................................................................ 83
Appendix C—Firmware and Software Base Lineup ................................................................. 84
Appendix E—Adding New ESXi ISO Images ........................................................................... 86
Preparing the VMware ESXi 5.x Installation Media .............................................................. 86
Download Image ISO .................................................................................................. 86
Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File ................................................................. 87
Creating a Kickstart Configuration File ........................................................................... 88
Adding the new image to the software repositories ........................................................... 89
Appendix G— Planning Worksheet .................................................................................... 90
Out of Band Management IP Address Configuration ............................................................ 90
ESXI Server IP Configuration ........................................................................................ 90
VLAN for IOA Configuration ......................................................................................... 90
VMware Workloads ................................................................................................... 90
Appendix I—FAQs ........................................................................................................ 92