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Choosing Your Linux Kickstart Provisioning Preparation
Method
You can automate a Linux installation on newly provisioned machines. The procedures for preparing for
this type of provisioning differ depending on whether you are using Solaris AI or Kickstart or autoYaST
configuration files to perform your machine provisioning.
Figure 31. Workflow for Preparing for Linux Machine Provisioning
Ensure that a DHCP server
is available on the network.
Do you want
to use Solaris
Automated Installer
(AI) to provision
machines?
Yes
No
Prepare a configuration file to specify the
locations of the vRealize Automation server
and the Linux agent installation package.
Publish a configured vRealize Automation
guest agent to an IPS Repository.
Edit isolinux/isolinux.cfg or loader/isolinux.cfg
to specify the name and location of the
configuration file and the appropriate
Linux distribution source.
Customize your Solaris AI to
download and run the guest agent.
Create the boot ISO image and save it to the location required by your virtualization platform.
Gather information about the name and location of the boot images so your tenant administrators
and business group managers can create Linux Kickstart blueprints. For vCenter Server,
you also need the vCenter Server guest operating system version.
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