Rapid Deployment of WW VMsLewis 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 syntaxC:\<path of setup>\setup.exe /silent “<path of responsefile\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 3.5.1 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 10-15 minutes

Questions? Contact us..

Ltalley@insourcess.com

Thank You!