Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Start ESX or ESXi Guests at Boot

I've had to do this before and always forget, so here goes.
  1. Launch the VIC
  2. Click on the server icon (not the guest icon)
  3. Click the "Configuration" tab
  4. Click on Virtual Machine startup/shutdown
  5. Click on "Properties"
  6. Click on "allow virtual machines to start and stop with the system"
  7. Click on the guest you want to start automatically and then click "move up" until it's in the 'Automatic Start Up' section
  8. Rinse, repeat for any other guests OS's

The last few steps are not very intuitive, but you get the idea once you've done it a few times. Thanks to Merrick for reminding me which tab these settings were on. I had to do this a few months ago and had forgotten.