VMware VS4-ENT-PL-A - vSphere Enterprise Plus Setup Manual page 146

vSphere Installation and Setup
accepteula or vmaccepteula (required)
Accepts the ESXi license agreement. This command functions as it did in ESXi 4.1.
clearpart (optional)
Compared to kickstart, the behavior of the ESXi
command in your existing scripts.
clearpart
Clears any existing partitions on the disk. Requires
--drives=
--alldrives
--ignoredrives=
--overwritevmfs
--firstdisk=
disk-type1
[disk-type2,...]
dryrun (optional)
Parses and checks the installation script. Does not perform the installation.
install
Specifies that this is a fresh installation. Replaces the deprecated
scripted installations. Either the
which disk to install or upgrade ESXi on.
--disk= or --drive=
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clearpart
install
Remove partitions on the specified drives.
Ignores the requirement and allows clearing of partitions on every
--drives=
drive.
Removes partitions on all drives except those specified. Required unless the
or
--drives= --alldrives
Permits overwriting of VMFS partitions on the specified drives. By default,
overwriting VMFS partitions is not allowed.
Partitions the first eligible disk found. By default, the eligible disks are set to
the following order:
1 Locally attached storage (
2 Network storage (
remote
3 USB disks ( )
usb
You can change the order of the disks by using a comma separated list
appended to the argument. If you provide a filter list, the default settings are
overridden. You can combine filters to specify a particular disk, including
esx for the first disk with ESX installed on it, model and vendor information,
or the name of the vmkernel device driver. For example, to prefer a disk with
the model name ST3120814A and any disk that uses the mptsas driver rather
than a normal local disk, the argument is
--firstdisk=ST3120814A,mptsas,local.
, , or
install upgrade installorupgrade
Specifies the disk to partition. In the command
can be in any of the forms shown in the following examples:
Path:
--disk=/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0
n
MPX name:
n --disk=mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0
VML name:
--disk=vml.000000034211234
n
command is different. Carefully edit the
command to be specified.
flag is specified.
)
local
)
command used for ESXi 4.1
autopart
command is required to determine
--disk=diskname
, the diskname
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