When we’re ready to deploy new ESXi hosts in our environment, we order them from Dell with ESXi pre-loaded on the internal SD-Card. This is nice and all, but what do you do when you have to go through and configure NTP, Users, Groups, Scratch directory, lockdown mode, and the list goes on?

You’d have to fire up each server, go through and configure everything, x10 if you had 10 new servers.

Since we’re working on a new rather larger virtualization deployment, we were looking at ways to overcome this.

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