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Goal

 Provides information on how to create a bootable VMaware ESXI 6.0 ISO that contains OVN (Xsigo) host drivers slipstreamed in for remote (no local storage and/or physical ethernet onboard devices) for PXE, iSCSI or SAN Boot installations.

Solution

Remastered ISO Creation for ESXi 6.0 Hosts

For Oracle vNICs and vHBAs to be available to the ESXi 6.0 OS, you must inject the Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers into the native ESXi OS. This process is called creating a remastered ISO.

For this procedure, be aware of the following:

■ You must have a Microsoft Windows server capable of supporting Microsoft Windows PowerShell.

■ Creating the remastered ISO occurs through the VMware vSphere plug-in for Microsoft Windows PowerShell. The Windows server must have this tool installed on it.

■ Creating a remastered ISO for ESXi 6.0 hosts is supported only on a Windows server running the plug-in. The Windows server's requirements are determined by the version of PowerShell.

■ You must use a preconfigured ESXi bundle as a baseline, which is available from VMware's web site. Then, inject the Oracle Virtual Networking bits into that bundle.

■ You must have full administrator rights on the Windows server where you will be creating the remastered ISO.

Create the Remastered ISO

Use this procedure to create a remastered ISO. For this task, assume you are using the working directory \images\New for the user named admin.

1. Install PowerShell on the Windows server if you have not already done so.

2. Install the vSphere PowerCLI plug-in if you have not done so already.

3. Download the VMware-6.x.x.zip file to the Windows server.

4. If you have not already done so, download the current Oracle Virtual Networking host driver for ESXi 6.0 hosts as documented in Download and Install Supported Firmware Versions for HCAs on page 10.

5. Start PowerCLI and connect to the vCenter server.

 This example shows connecting to a vCenter server with the IP address 192.168.11.12, but you can also connect by using a fully-qualified domain name.

6. In PowerCLI, import the ESXi 6.0.0 bundle and the Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers for ESXi 6.0 hosts in the PowerCLI application.

This example adds the VMware distribution bundle (.zip file) and Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers to a template.

This documentation uses VMware-ESXi-6.0.0 build-2494585-depot.zip and xsigo-6.0.0-ESX1 drivers for illustrative purposes. Follow the same procedure for other versions.

This example imports the VMware distribution bundle (VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-depot.zip) and Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers (xsigo_6.0.0-ESX.1-1vmw.600.0.0-2494585.zip) to a template.

When you upload the ESX software depot, it creates VMware standard profiles by default. The profiles can be either cloned or created new to make a Custom-ESXISO. This procedure uses the cloned-profile installation procedure.

7. List the ESX image profiles.

As shown in this example, two ESX image profiles are available by default. To make the remastered ISO, you will clone the ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-standard profile.

8. Create an image profile to make the Custom-ESX-6.0.0 ISO.

 In this example, a new ESX image profile named Custom-ESX-6.0.0 is created by cloning the default ESX image profile.

9. Verify that the custom ESX image profile is present.

When the custom image profile is present, you can add and remove necessary packages to make a custom ISO.

10. Remove the net-mlx4-en, net-mlx4-core, nmlx4-en, and nmlx4-core packages from the depot so that they are not included in the remastered ISO.

 11. Add OVN packages in the order shown.

 12. Export the modified image profile to the remastered ISO.

 13. (Optional) Export the modified image to the remastered bundle.

This step is required if your deployments use a bundle for installation.

 14. Reboot the server using the remastered ISO.

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