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<p class="">Try these commands to create a vmdk</p><p class="">ssh <a href="mailto:root@esxihost.domain.com">root@esxihost.domain.com</a> mkdir -p /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/<a href="http://vmguest.domain.com">vmguest.domain.com</a></p>
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</p><p class="">ssh <a href="mailto:root@esxihost.domain.com">root@esxihost.domain.com</a> vmkfstools -c 64g -d thin -a lsilogic /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/<a href="http://vmguest.domain.com/vmguest.domain.com.vmdk">vmguest.domain.com/vmguest.domain.com.vmdk</a></p>
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Chris Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 2/18/2014 2:12 PM, Vruwink, Timothy
Roger wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I may not be
describing what I want clearly. I just wanted to know if
there was a way in Cobbler to define your Virtual machine
settings (specifically for Vmware vcenter 5.5) - things like
CPU, Ram, network cards etc. All the “virtualized” hardware
that normally would be a physical server. Kind of “create
the virtual machine framework”, then do the pxe
boot/kickstart stuff.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I suspect it’s
a chicken before the egg situation. I need to have the
server there, and then Cobbler steps in.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Tim<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span><br>
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If I'm reading this right you may be mixing apples and oranges as my
grade school teachers would say. Creating the virtual machine is a
different thing from running cobbler to install it. They need to
know different things. If you want to have cobbler set up a file
system then in the kickstart you need to tell it which virtual
drive, what file system and how big at a minimum. And the network
install kernel needs to know which interface on the client to use
from which to fetch the OS. Although strictly speaking if there is
only one interface you shouldn't, in theory, need to give cobbler a
MAC address. I've run into problem leaving it blank so I always
give it on the cobbler system add line. To do that the VM needs to
be created so the MAC address can be obtained from the VM
configuration. <br>
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Now if you're going to be installing a lot of nodes (I have a
cobbler server, a backup and eight clients using VirtualBox running
on two Macs and a Windows laptop but by lots I mean anything over 10
say) then yes you may have a problem getting all the MAC address for
example on the real systems. I know with VrtualBox you can tell it
what to use. Sadly I don't know for sure about the others.
Wouldn't surprise me if you could. The primary MAC address on all
the hardware I've installed was on the carton it came in and/or on
the case somewhere. Just copy those into a file and script the
cobbler set up with the command line tools. Yes, it's a pain if you
bought 1024 nodes etc. Have the company send you a text file with
the MAC addresses in it. You should have that and the matching
serial numbers in a file anyway for inventory an warranty purposes.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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CJ.<br>
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