Click ‘ Next’Īdditionally, if there are any IP addresses within the set range that need to be excluded, they can be added here. Set the network configuration either by entering the length or the mask.

Next, you will create the IP range associated with the DHCP scope (Which IP addresses will be given out when a DHCP request has been made). Give your scope a name and a description, click ‘ Next’ Right-click ‘ IPv4’ and select ‘ New Scope’ In Server Manager, Select DHCP, Right-click on the DHCP Server name, then select DHCP Manager. To setup your DHCP server, add the DHCP feature to your server: DHCPĪs mentioned previously, you will need a DHCP scope that will hand out an IP to each ESX host as it boots. The iPXE boot utilizes TFTP to transfer the ESX image to the host, which is then loaded into RAM and booted. DHCP will assign an IP address to the hosts that are booting up, once the IP Address is assigned, the host will initiate and iPXE boot.

Adding a software depot, creating deployment rules, and activating rulesetsįor Auto Deploy to work correctly there are a few things that need to be configured in your environment.

In this post we discuss the next step in our journey to running Auto Deploy in your environment, which is configuring your DHCP server. There are several more steps that need to be taken to get Auto Deploy configured correctly. In the previous post, we covered Enabling Auto Deploy on vCenter Server Appliance 6.

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