Hello all, I’ve got a need to boot bare metal machines with VMware ESXi. ESXi 7 and newer is resistant to an image that can be reused like other OS images are used from Nova. As I mentioned it’s a bare metal machine so I’m working with Ironic but ultimately looking to drive this via Nova (through the Ironic hypervisor backend). Coming up empty in my Google-fu for an example of someone doing this so I figured I’d crowd source asking the ML. Right now I’m able to get an ISO of a system and it’s using VMware’s “weasel” installer which appears to be a fork/related to Anaconda and using Kickstart. Ironic supports an Anaconda deploy mechanism but the files are different and so it won’t just work out of the box (there is no stage2 but instead like 80 individual files) so my plan is to make a “weasel” deploy mechanism for Ironic. But just wanted to see if someone had any better approaches or ideas before I plod forward. Thanks. — Doug