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HOL-1811-03: Deploying a Host Using Autodeploy GUI

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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

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The Deploying a Host using Autodeploy process consists of four stages:

  • Stage 1: Create the Software Depot
  • Stage 2: Create a Rule to Deploy ESXi to a Host
  • Stage 3: Activate the Rule
  • Stage 4: Confirm the deployment of ESXi to the Host

This simulation will go through each stage to deploy a host which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment.

Create the Software Depot

  1. Click the Auto Deploy icon from the Home screen to open the Auto Deploy GUI.
  2. Click the vCenter Server dropdown and select vcsa-01b.corp.local vCenter to make sure you are working in the correct vCenter
  3. Click the Software Depots tab
  4. Click the "Import Software Depot" icon (green arrow) to begin the creation of a software depot. Software depots hold the software necessary to deploy ESXi to the hosts.
  5. Name the imported software depot "vSphere 6.0"
  6. Click Browse.
  7. Click the "update-from-esxi6.0-6.0_update02.zip" file
  8. Click Open to select that file.
  9. Click Upload on the "Import Software Depot" pop up.
  10. Once the upload has completed click Close

Create a Rule to Deploy ESXi to a Host

  1. Click the Discovered Hosts tab.
  2. Click the host with the IP address "192.168.100.125". The non-deployed hosts tab will show all of the hosts that have booted into PXE and checked into the server. Hosts can be added to inventory directly from this tab. We are showing more than just the single host because the host has booted up with multiple IP addresses during the development of the lab.
  3. Click the Deploy Rules tab
  4. Click New Deploy Rule... button. The deploy rules associate a host with the an image. Once the rule has been applied the host will know which image to pull from the Software Depot.
  5. Name the new deploy rule "ESX-02b-ad deploy rule"
  6. Under Hosts that match the following pattern: click on <Add pattern> to define which hosts this rule will apply to.
  7. Click IPv4
  8. Enter the IP address "192.168.100.125".  
  9. Click Next
  10. Click the "ESXi-6.0.0-20160302001-standard" image. The standard image includes the VM-Tools for guests.
  11. Click Next
  12. Click the Do not include a host profile checkbox as we are not applying a host profile at this time.
  13. Click Next.
  14. Click the arrow next to "RegionB01" to expand the tree and select "RegionB01-COMP01". This identifies where the host will exist inside of vCenter.
  15. Click Next.
  16. Click Finish.
  17. Click Recent Tasks on the right side of the window to watch the rule be created. It would normally take several minutes to build the rule.

Activate the rule

  1. Click the Refresh icon to make sure you can see the deploy rule you created. Once the rule is created it must be activated.
  2. Click on the rule that you just created.
  3. Click on Activate/Deactivate rules...
  4. Click the rule you created in the lower section.
  5. Click the Activate button to enable the rule.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Click Finish. At this point the host(s) would have to be booted to apply the image.

The process that the host would go through when it boots is as follows:

  1. The host will first find the DHCP server and get an IP.
  2. DHCP will redirect the host to the TFTP server which has a PXE image.
  3. The PXE image has the vCenter address in it. If there is a deploy rule that applies to the host, it will then use that image to boot from.

In this simulation, we have now rebooted the host.

 

Confirm the deployment of ESXi to the Host

 

  1. Click on Hosts and Clusters.
  2. Click the "192.168.100.125" host.
  3. Click the Summary tab to see that this host is now running ESXi 6.0. In the next simulation we will be upgrading this host to ESXi 6.5.

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