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From: Matthew Hyclak hyclak@ohio.edu To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: Re: kickstarting ESX? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:44:58 -0400
On 08/26/09 12:40, Patrick Nixon enlightened us:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Matthew Hyclakhyclak@ohio.edu wrote:
On 08/26/09 16:41, Dick Davies enlightened us:
Turns out ESX supports kickstarting; has anyone tried importing an ESX ISO?
If not, no worries. I'll try it tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
We did, but we've punted and reverted to putting the kickstart file(s) on the CD. The big problem we ran into is the inability to PXE boot on trunked network connections, and even when they were simple access port connections the ESX 3.5 install timed out before our Cisco 6500's would bring the port up. (RHEL 3 has the same problem). We assume vSphere 4 would fix that, but that doesn't get us around the trunk issue.
Matt
-- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222
Matthew, Did you turn off spanning-tree on the port before you tried to kickstart over it?
No, as I don't control the network infrastructure. My understanding is even with that off, you can't PXE boot on a trunk port, and we configure all of our ESX boxes as trunks so we only have to add VLANs when a new network is needed.
Matt
-- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222
We are using cobbler for vsphere4 as others have highlighted below, we use cobbler buildiso and virtual media as have a static ip requirement :( This gets you stage1 so this may help you, though you need the buildiso patch that allows ksdevice=vmnic0 / ksdevice=<mac>.
Cheers, Simon
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