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Sample: Virtual Machine boot from ISO

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#65 opened on Jun 17, 2014

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Description

A sample that builds a Virtual Machine with a blank VMDK. The script should transfer the ISO from the local file system to the appropriate datastore then boot the VM with the ISO. Presumably users of such a script could supply an ISO that would auto install a guest OS onto the VMDK and that's the intention of this sample, to show each discrete step of accomplishing that task.

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Research direction
Create a Python script using pyVmomi to clone a VM, attach a blank VMDK, upload an ISO to a datastore, and configure the VM to boot from the ISO.
Tech stack
python
Domain
backendinfrastructuredevops
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
PythonpyVmomivSphere
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65