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AUTOMATING VCENTER SERVER DEPLOYMENT AND CONFIGURATION
To add the Host Update Utility component, try this next code:
# Install vCenter Client with Host Update Utility
Write-Host “Installing vCenter Client with Host Update Utility”
Invoke-Item “$VCMedia\vpx\VMware-viclient.exe /s /w /v /qn `
/L*v %TEMP%\vmvcc.log `
WARNING_LEVEL=0 `
INSTALL_VIUPDATE=1”
VMware supports more automated installation options and parameters, such as
installing a linked mode vCenter Server, and maintains an online installation
document here:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_vcserver_cmdline_install.pdf
Set Up Your vCenter Server Folder Structure
Two types of folders are supported in vSphere. From within the Hosts and Clusters
view, you are able to create folders at any point under the Datacenter level. ese are
commonly known as yellow folders and can be used throughout the infrastructure
to organize the clusters, hosts, and VMs in a logical view.
Blue folders can be seen in the VMs and Templates view. Use these folders to more
accurately re ect the layout of your VMs from a logical point of view. For example,
you can create folders based on departments (such as Finance, Legal, and Customer
Services) or by function (Internet, Active Directory, File Servers, Print Servers,
Databases), or any other view that makes sense to your organization. Blue folders
could also be used to re ect a security function and used to group the VMs into
folders which only certain people can access. Once you create the folder, you can
use it to grant access to various vCenter Server permissions.
Creating a Folder Structure from Scratch
You can initially create your folder structure when you create your new VMs; create
your templates and move them into the appropriate folder. Another way of creating
the folder structure is to plan the layout in a comma-separated variable (CSV) le.
is type of plan can easily be created in an Excel document, as shown in Figure 1.1,
and then exported to the CSV format needed to create the virtual folder structure.
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