VMware ESX 4.0 - INSTALLATION GUIDE UPDATE 1 Installation Manual page 56

ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide
--grow
--maxsize=
--ondisk= or --ondrive=
--onfirstdisk=
<disk-type1>,
[<disk-type2>,...]
--onvirtualdisk=
--fstype=
reboot (optional)
Reboots the system after scripted installation is finished.
--noeject
rootpw (required)
Sets the root password for the system. Can be between 6 and 64 characters.
--iscrypted
<password>
timezone (required)
Sets the time zone for the system.
--utc (required)
<timezone> (optional)
virtualdisk (optional)
N The service console must be installed on a VMFS datastore that is resident on a host's local disk or on a
OTE
SAN disk that is masked and zoned to that particular host only. The datastore cannot be shared between hosts.
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Allows the partition to grow to fill any available space or up to the maximum
size setting.
Specifies the maximum size in megabytes for a partition to grow.
Specifies the disk on which partitions are created. For the accepted disk
formats, see Table 6-1. Cannot be used with the
Partitions the first non-USB disk found. This is the same disk as found by the
command.
autopart –-firstdisk
You can add an optional string argument to the --firstdisk flag to select the
disk types. The strings that you can use are as follows:
local
n
remote
n
Device driver name in the vmkernel
n
You can combine multiple values in a comma-separated list to concatenate
other matches onto the list of matches. For example,
--firstdisk=local,remote selects the first detected local disk or, if none are
available, the first remote disk. This is the default behavior. To prefer a disk
with the device driver named mptspi over any other local disks, use
--firstdisk=mptspi,local.
Specifies the virtual disk on which partitions are created. Cannot be used with
the option.
--ondisk
Sets the file system type for the partition. Usually of type vmfs3, ext3, swap, or
vmkcore.
Does not eject the DVD after installation.
Specifies that the password is encrypted.
Specifies the password value.
Indicates that the BIOS clock is set to UTC (Greenwich Mean) time. Do not omit
this option.
Specifies the timezone value. See the Olson database for supported values.
option.
--onvirtualdisk
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