We've already got some great documentation from the Dell Virtualization Engineering team on how to install Dell OpenManage on VMware ESX. Definitely the first place to start.

Shelley, who talks to customers in the Executive Briefing Center daily, came by and mentioned that it would be great if we could package up the steps in the documentation, and write a script so customers could reuse it easily in their deployment processes and eliminate typo problems. DING DING DING, Thud (that's the sound of my head banging against the wall); of course that's what we should do!

For your viewing pleasure, I give you the Scriptalicious method for deploying OMSA on VMware ESX. Look through the code; about midway through you'll see me begging for help :-) Of course, I know all you admins just want to use what works and to heck with writing elegant code. :-)

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