Hello community,
I am using a kickstart file to provision ESX 3.0.3. The install completes successfully, and there are no error messages as far as I can tell. However, when I log in using the VI client, I find that there are no datastores. Thus I cannot create a VM without first defining a datastore.
Isn't the installer supposed to create a datastore as part of the install? Note that when I used the same kickstart file on a different box, the datastore was created there during the install. One difference is that the box with no datastore has 2 disks, but the box with the datastore is a 1 disk machine.
Here is my kickstart file:
# Authconfig auth --enableshadow --enablemd5 # BootLoader ( The user has to use grub by default ) bootloader --location=mbr # Timezone timezone America/Los_Angeles # X windowing System skipx # Install or Upgrade install # Text Mode text # Network install type network --bootproto dhcp --addvmportgroup=1 --vlanid=0 # Language lang en_US # Langauge Support langsupport --default en_US # Keyboard keyboard us # Mouse mouse none # Reboot after install ? reboot # Firewall settings firewall --disabled # Clear Partitions clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda # Partitioning part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 102 --ondisk sda part / --fstype ext3 --size 4997 --ondisk sda part swap --size 544 --ondisk sda part None --fstype vmfs3 --size 10000 --grow --ondisk sda part None --fstype vmkcore --size 94 --ondisk sda part /var/log --fstype ext3 --size 1992 --ondisk sda # VMware Specific Commands vmaccepteula vmlicense --mode=file %packages @base