Years ago when I first started playing with Linux kickstart I was also dabbling in php; using the two I was able to come up with a single "ks.php" file that we used for all our Linux installs. When I was given the opportunity to work with our VMware infrastructure (ESX 4.0), one of my first tasks was the ESX 4.1 installation. When I saw it was Red Hat Linux I knew exactly what to do and pulled out my php scripts. As ESXi has evolved so has my scripts so even though ESXi isn't Red Hat Linux the same approach still works. I hope someone will find these useful. You may be asking, why not just use Auto Deploy? First, the infrastructure to support our scripted install is already in place. There is nothing new to install except for new ESXi images. Second, we had a concern about relying on additional infrastructure to get things back online in the event our entire datacenter went down. Now that ESXi 5.1 has the "stateless cache" option I do plan on investiga