vmware-deployment

VMWare ESXi and VCSA automated deployment playbooks

ESXi deployment on Supermicro hosts

This repository provides an Ansible playbook to mount an ISO image via Redfish, set boot override to USB, and reboot a Supermicro BMC-managed host to boot from the mounted ISO.

It is especially useful in bare-metal automation environments like test labs, CI pipelines or ESXi provisioning setups.

Configuration

Fill the esxi-vars.yml

bmc_user: "user"                               # Username to authenticate with the BMC's Redfish API
bmc_pass: "pass"                               # Password for the BMC user
iso_host: "host"                               # IP or hostname of the SMB server hosting the ISO
iso_filename: "esxi_iso_supermicro.iso"        # Full filename of the ISO image to mount via Redfish
iso_path: "/downloads/esxi_iso_supermicro.iso" # Path on the SMB share where the ISO is located

Fill the inventory file with the ansible_host. The playbook will automatically generate the corresponding BMC address as mgmt-{{ inventory_hostname }}.

[esxi]
esxi1 ansible_host=f17-h17
esxi2 ansible_host=f17-h18

Run the playbook

To run the playbook in parallel across multiple hosts:

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml esxi-deploy.yml --forks 10

To target a single host:

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml esxi-deploy.yml -l esxi1