Nevermind, I'm a moron, it was a problem w/ my nic mounting eth0 vs. eth1. Didn't catch that.

Brugh/All,

I'm still having problems were the default vmkernel gateway it looks like it adds the gateway from the console, but when I go into the gui it's not there. Also I'm having a problem where I have a "VM Network" port group which I have set to go to vSwitch1, but it keeps ending up in vSwitch0 instead. Below is my script.

1. Setup admin acct

grep ^admins: /etc/group > /dev/null || groupadd admins
grep ^%admins /etc/sudoers > /dev/null || echo %admins ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL >> /etc/sudoers
useradd esxadmin
echo XXXX| passwd --stdin esxadmin
usermod -G admins esxadmin

1. Add addition nic to vSwitch0

esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch0

1. Add additional nic to vSwitch1

esxcfg-vswitch -a vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic2 vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic3 vSwitch1

1. Set vlan information for service ports
2. esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -p "Service Console"

1. create Standard VM PortGroups

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Server VLAN' vSwitch1

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'DMZ_public' vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -v 6 -p 'DMZ_public' vSwitch1

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'DMZ_private' vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -v 5 -p 'DMZ_private' vSwitch1

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Tyler-Network' vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -v 11 -p 'Tyler-Network' vSwitch1

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'CODY-Secure-Network-Restricted' vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -v 40 -p 'CODY-Secure-Network-Restricted' vSwitch1

esxcfg-vswitch -A 'VM Network' vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch -v 210 -p 'VM Network' vSwitch1

1. create the VMotion portgroup & set default gw

esxcfg-vswitch -A VMkernel vSwitch0
esxcfg-vswitch -v 0 -p 'VMkernel' vSwitch0
esxcfg-route 172.19.80.1

1. Dont edit the next line! check ks link in table of ESX hosts for output

esxcfg-vmknic -a VMkernel -i ###HOSTIP### -n 255.255.255.0

1. enable VMotion

service mgmt-vmware restart
sleep 5
while ; do
sleep 5
echo Waiting for hostd to accept connections..
done
vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/vmotion/vnic_set vmk0"

1. Allow ROOT access using SSH

sed -e 's/PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config > /etc/ssh/sshd_config.new
mv -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config.new /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service sshd restart

mv /etc/ntpd.conf /etc/ntpd.conf.bak
mv /etc/ntpd/step-tickers /etc/ntpd/step-tickers.bak
echo "1.north-america.pool.ntp.org" > /etc/ntp/step-tickers
echo "pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp/step-tickers
echo "restrict 127.0.0.1" > /etc/ntp.conf
echo "restrict default kod nomodify notrap" >> /etc/ntp.conf
echo "server 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp.conf
echo "server pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp.conf
echo "driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift" >> /etc/ntp.conf
esxcfg-firewall -e ntpClient
service ntpd restart
chkconfig --level 345 ntpd on
hwclock --systohc

vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/advopt/update LVM.DisallowSnapshotLun int 0"

vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/storage/hba_rescan vmhba1"
vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/storage/hba_rescan vmhba2"

sleep 5

cd /vmfs/volumes/ISO-SoftwareRepository/hpmgmt/825
./install825vibs.sh --silent --inputfile hpmgmt.conf

After putzing with it for a little while finally determined that I had to use eth4... <sigh> I think this is the only box that is configured weird.

Hello,

I plan to run the deployment appliance from my ESX host to image up other blades in my chassis. Currently running 3.5 U4. I tried importing the OVF (v.90), and I'm getting an error " The hardware family of the OVF package is not supported: vmx-07" I'm assuming that's because it needs virtual hardware version 7 (vSphere) in order to run? If so, can you make the previous version available?

Thanks

-Nate

Question for ya. Is there a method to increase the Service Console memory allocation via the kickstart script or as an option prior to the kickstart script? I'm able to get it to change it through vimsh, but the box doesn't reboot automatically to commit that change.