VMware VS4-ENT-PL-A Setup Guide - Page 185
Con a Host Profile to Use Stateless Caching, Edit Host Profile, Advanced Configuration Settings
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Chapter 7 Installing ESXi n In production environments, protect the vCenter Server system and the Auto Deploy server by including them in a highly available environment. Having the vCenter Server in a management cluster guarantees that VDS and virtual machine migration are available. If possible, protect other elements of your infrastructure. See "Set up a Highly Available Auto Deploy Infrastructure," on page 204. Procedure 1 Set up your environment for Auto Deploy and install PowerCLI. See "Preparing for vSphere Auto Deploy," on page 167. 2 Verify that a disk with at least 1GB of free space is available. If the disk is not yet partitioned, partitioning happens when you apply the host profile. 3 Set up the host to first attempt a network boot and to boot from disk if network boot fails. See your hardware vendor's documentation. What to do next Set up a host profile for stateless caching. In most cases, you set up the host profile on a reference host and apply that host profile to other hosts. Configure a Host Profile to Use Stateless Caching When a host is set up to use stateless caching, the host uses a cached image if the Auto Deploy Server is not available. To use stateless caching, you must configure a host profile. You can apply that host profile to other hosts that you want to set up for stateless caching. You can configure the host profile on a single host that you want to set up to use caching. You can also create a host profile that uses caching on a reference host and apply that host profile to other hosts. Prerequisites Prepare your host for stateless caching. See "Prepare for Auto Deploy with Stateless Caching," on page 184. Procedure 1 In the vSphere Web Client, create a host profile. See the Host Profiles documentation. 2 Select the host profile and click Edit Host Profile. 3 Leave the name and description and click Next. 4 Click Advanced Configuration Settings and click the System Image Cache Configuration folder. 5 Click the System Image Cache Configuration icon. 6 In the System Image Cache Profile Settings drop-down menu, make your selection. Option Enable stateless caching on the host Enable stateless caching to a USB disk on the host Description Caches the image to disk. Caches the image to a USB disk attached to the host. VMware, Inc. 185
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