Rapid Deployment of WW VMs Lewis Talley

Few click deployment From nothing to a fully configured Wonderware node in a matter of minutes! You can decide which technology to deploy (from InTouch to System Platform) How? By leveraging vSphere Templates & Wonderware silent install with response files

A little bit about the technology vSphere Templates What are they? Introduced in 2012 R2 Basic syntax C:\ \setup.exe /silent “<path of response file\response-file-name>” There are a number of pre configured response files that you only need to update user names and passwords

Response file samples Also documented in Appendix A of the ASP install gude

Prework (template) Image built I used 2008 R2 SP 1 Enable.NET Windows Feature Enable IIS (per WIS Tech Note – if installing WIS)

Prework continued.. Copy the ASP 2014 Install media Unzip using 7-zip to C:\ ASP-2014 (this will be important later) Create a batch file for the silent installation In this case we are installing InTouch (so I create the batch file below in c:\Silent Installs)

Response file samples The batch file just needs to point to any one of these files I used InTouch in my example

Make it a template vSphere Client Convert to a template Then deploy a virtual machine from it This will bring up the options to customize the guest

Deploy the template Selecting this option will allow you to customize guest (name, license, network, etc..)

That’s it.. Now we wait.. Takes about minutes

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