December 2017
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During the ESXi deployment through Auto Deploy, the image is cached on local disk, remote disk, or USB drive. The host is always provisioned by the vSphere Auto Deploy but if the server becomes unavailable due to bottlenecks (for example, hundreds of hosts that attempt to access the Auto Deploy server simultaneously), the host boots from the cache and attempts to reach the Auto Deploy server to complete the configuration.
The stateless caching solution is primarily intended to prevent situations where the deployment process may fail due to server congestion, a common scenario that occurs in large environments.
To enable stateless caching mode, follow these steps:
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