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upgrade
Either the install, upgrade, or installorupgrade command is required to determine which
disk to install or upgrade ESXi on.
--disk= or --drive=
Specifies the disk to partition. In the command --disk=diskname, the
diskname can be a disk name or a full disk filesystem path in ESXi, for
example:
n Disk name: --disk=naa.6d09466044143600247aee55ca2a6405 or
n
Device path: --disk=/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0
For accepted disk name formats, see Disk Device Names.
--firstdisk=
disk-type1,
[disk-type2,...]
Partitions the first eligible disk found. By default, the eligible disks are
set to the following order:
1 Locally attached storage (local)
2 Network storage (remote)
3 USB disks (usb)
You can change the order of the disks by using a comma-separated
list appended to the argument. If you provide a filter list, the default
settings are overridden. You can combine filters to specify a particular
disk, including esx for the first disk with ESX installed on it, model
and vendor information, or the name of the VMkernel device driver.
For example, to prefer a disk with the model name ST3120814A and
any disk that uses the mptsas driver rather than a normal local disk,
the argument is --firstdisk=ST3120814A,mptsas,local. You can use
localesx for local storage that contains ESXi image or remoteesx for
remote storage that contains ESXi image.
%include or include (Optional)
Specifies another installation script to parse. This command is treated similarly to a multiline
command, but takes only one argument.
filename
For example: %include part.cfg
%pre (Optional)
Specifies a script to run before the kickstart configuration is evaluated. For example, you can use it
to generate files for the kickstart file to include.
--interpreter
=[python|busybox]
Specifies an interpreter to use. The default is busybox.
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