A while ago i created:
V1: Config vSAN ESA host or VCF ESA vSAN Host the easy way with Config-VSAN-ESA-VCF-Lab-Host Script.
V2: Config a VCF (vSAN ESA) host the Easy Way
With the release of VCF 9.1 is now time for again a updated version!
What does the script now:
✅ Disable ipv6
✅ Set DNS domain name
✅ Rename local datastore
✅Configure NTP
✅ MTU 9000
✅ Installs the vSAN ESA Hardware Mock VIB &
✅ Workaround to reduce impact of resync traffic in vSAN ESA clusters utilizing a 10G network
✅ Installs the Synology NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
✅ Memory Optimalisation Additional Transparent Page Sharing management capabilities and new default settings
✅ AMD Zen4/Zen5 IPMI Thermal Driver for ESX AMD Zen4/Zen5 IPMI Thermal Driver for ESX Fling
✅ Generate new certificate on the ESXi host (for the VCF verification check)
✅ Ask are you running Miniforum MS-A2(AMD) host & Optimalization see
VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive ESX Configuration Workarounds for Lab Deployments (Except the vSAN Compression Algorithm)
✅ Enable Memory Tiering for 9.1 and 9.0 and older (Filter OS Disk)
vSAN ESA Mock and the AMD Zen4/Zen5 IPMI Thermal Driver can be download on the Broadcom Fling page.
(https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/free-downloads) section and select Flings (https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subfamily=Flings&freeDownloads=true)
You need to download the vibs separately!
For the installs put the vib’s in the same map as the script
You can download the script: HERE