All,
I have always used installs of ESXi to either local hard drives or boot from SAN lun's. I have considered autodeploy but the requirement on vsphere is always scared me away. Here I am considering it again ... Just to note I already have a management cluster that will not be using auto deploy and already run's my vcenters. So help me justify using auto deploy or not. I am looking for pro's / con's of each options as a design choice justification.
Take into account both options with stateless caching and stateful installs.
Let me know if your using it and what experiences you have had as well.
Thanks