New VM created from template gets the same IP adress of the source VM(used to create the template)

[gopivasista]

I created a "ESXi Host VM (say esxi_vm_1)" on a physical ESXi host (IP = 10.20.30.1)

The virtual host had DHCP enabled and after successfully creating the VM and powering it ON, it obtained an IP address from DHCP pool (say 10.20.30.5)

Now I powered OFF the "esxi_vm_1" and then "cloned to template (Name=host_vm_template)".

After the template is successfully created, I am trying to create multiple ESXi Host VMs from the template, using the below code in vsphere powercli:

for ($i=2; $i -le 5; $i++){New-VM -VMHost 10.20.30.1 -Name esxi_host_$i -Template host_vm_template; start-vm esxi_host_$i}

The new VMs "esxi_host_2, esxi_host_3, esxi_host_4 and esxi_host_5" are all successfully created and started.

ISSUE:

When I go to each of the VMs and check the network configuration,

All of these new VMs IP address is "10.20.30.5"

Please let me know how I can avoid this and assign a new IP address from the DHCP pool for each new VM that is created.

thanks

-gopi

[admin]

I think you may have posted this under the wrong discussion forum, this appears to be vsphere/ESXi question rather than vCloud Automation Center.

You might need to tell the OS to release/renew after clone, usually this is done with customization spec.