Author: Michael Krebs

The automatic and unattended installation of virtual machines can be achieved with several techniques. In this series, I´ll show the approach of using CloudInit together with VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator. This will be realized by the use of Guest OS Customization of the specific VM.

In Part 2 we will focus on creating the necessary Guest OS Customization data.

Guest OS Customization

To use these Customizations we have to set Advanced Configuration parameters to each VM that should be deployed from your templates.

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The automatic and unattended installation of virtual machines can be achieved with several techniques. In this series, I´ll show the approach of using CloudInit together with VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator. This will be realized by the use of Guest OS Customization of the specific VM.

First, we need to prepare a VM which will be used as a template later.
To do so perform a basic installation of the OS and apply the changes for the specific OS and version.
In this post the following linux distributions are covered.

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3

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