
Automation Control
In the Automate folder on the build share you will find Automate.ini, this file controls the
level of build automation. The file has the following entries:
TZ: allows the automatic setting of the Time Zone in the Windows VMs, it uses the TZUtil
command, to get the right text for this run tzutil /g on your PC and paste the result in
place of my time zone.
VCInstall: Alows the automatic installation of vCenter in the VC VM, the
VCInstallOptions line shows valid choices. None simply installs the VMTools. Base also
installs SQLNative client and makes a couple of other convenient changes. 4, 5 and 5.1
automatically install vCenter.
BuildDatastores, BuildVM and ProductKey: These control how much the script to add
hosts to the vCenter server will do, anything you want to do yourself you can turn off.
These settings don’t affect the VC build. The ProductKey line is for your Windows 2003
Server product key for use with nested VMs.
The View section allows the automation of the View connection servers and security server
along with the setup of the nested Windows XP VM that can be used as a desktop for View.
There are some additional settings for View, check the View section later in this document.
For the initial test build I suggest having the automation fully build vSphere, datastores and
VMs. This way you can be sure all the sources and setup steps work. Subsequent rebuilds can
be less automated to allow you to do tasks manually.
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