One of the upcoming blogs which I really enjoy reading is Arent Consulting by Tom Arentsen. I know Tom for a while as I have been involved with some of his projects and he really knows what he is talking about and is a nice guy. I just noticed his series of articles on the PXE Manager fling and felt that it deserved more attention than it has been getting so far.
PXE Manager is a great fling which enables enables ESXi host state (firmware) management and provisioning. It is probably my favorite fling and I most definitely recommend reading the following articles to get a better understanding of how it works and how it can help you migrating to ESXi or simplifying your ESXi environment!
- PXE Manager Part 0 – Introduction
- PXE Manager Part I – PXE Manager Installation
- PXE Manager Part II – PXE Agent Installation
- PXE Manager Part III – Configuration of PXE Manager
- PXE Manager Part IV – Add a driver into the ESXi image (oem.tgz)
- PXE Manager Part V – Add a Stateful ESXi Host
- PXE Manager Part VI – How does it work
If you have some spare time on your hands, read the article and play around with the Fling.
Hi,
how many PXE manager can you connect to one vCenter Server?
thanks.
can we install in the same server
Great fling indeed. But sorry for the blog, I remember the author not knowing how a port-channel works, 3 years ago. Now he is a VCDX, i don’t know the criteria but he must have studied a lot! (or the skill level is not so high)
I would suggest you go through the process yourself and then decide if the skill level is not so high or he has studied a lot.