Hi all,
This one is driving me nuts....
I have a small lab setup.
I have 4 hosts, all diskless.
One physical vcenter 5.0 server with my tftpd/dhcp/pxe, auto deploy, vcenter 5.0, powercli installed on it.
I can manage to setup host profiles and have figured out how to compliance, answer files etc (I think), I can boot a host as a firsttime boot, configure it, create a host profile set it all up, compliance it, answer file it etc, BUT when I reboot it it reads the profile but doesn't implement things like vSwitch config and starts in maintenance mode (even though I checked compliance and answer files before I rebooted it) then of course I can't modify the profile because it can't find the reference host which IS the machine I trying to reboot, this is host 1 of 4......The other 3 are off.
Is there no way to boot 4 diskless machines via pxe auto deploy without a reference host?
All I wish to do is be able to have my 4 hosts auto deploy/pxe boot and off I go. I used to do this with esxi4.0 using pxe and configBundle files that stored the configuration, that worked a treat, but now with esxi 5.0 I have no idea how to "start up" my environment from all 4 hosts being powered off.
Any advise where to figure this one out?
Cheers
Adam