Hi Scott,
I haven’t used cobbler with ESXI in a while, so I don’t exactly
remember
what the parameters were... but I know that you need to have a couple of
kernel options set in your profile. I had my setup completely automated,
but it got erased when my section got reorganized. Ideally you should be
able to press the power-button and have your OS installed, updated, and
setup for you. Admittedly, what I mostly worked with was kvm or bare-metal,
but I had some ESXI servers in the loop as well.
Thanks for that info. It mean its well supported on ESXI, I just have
to figure out how to do it
Let me see if I have any notes from left over from that project. In the
meantime if anyone else knows the answer off the top of their head please
let us know.
I am at work right now, so it might be ~7 hours or so before I can get back
to you, but since we are likely in different time-zones, I'm sure that isn't
a problem.
No problem Scott, take your time. I really appreciate your effort and
look forward to your notes.
I am curious, where one should run the command below, it looks like on
the ESXI, reading between lines, but none of the articles online
highlight that explicitly.
koan --virt --server=cobbler.eng.example.com --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64
--virt-type=vmware --virt-name=lithium.eng.example.com
If its on ESXi, how do you install koan to virtual machine thats don't
have a operating system yet? I have a system with the virtual machine
already setup on cobbler side as follows:
cobbler system add --name=lithium --hostname=lithium.eng.example.com
--gateway=192.168.20.168 --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64
--dns-name=lithium.eng.example.com --mac=00:50:56:9e:fe:1a
--ip-address=192.168.20.3 --subnet=255.255.255.0 --status=production
--interface=em1 --static=1
Regards,
William