how to assign a static (external) IP to a VM when provisionng through vCAC

[atuli]

Hi All,

I am trying to figure out how to assign a static IP to a vCAC request through vCO before the cloning starts. Without a static IP assigned, the cloning finishes fine and gets a random IP .. but I want the VM to use a specific IP.

I am using the extensibility pack (not Dynamic Ops Designer).

Is there a way to do that? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[ShibbyB · Accepted solution]

Are you planning on using Network Profiles for a pool of static IP addresses? If not, are you going to provide the IP address at request time? To do the static IP address assignment, put in the custom property "VirtualMachine.Network0.Address" and associated custom properties (see page 251 of the Operating Guide) and if you have a Guest Customization specified in your blueprint, it will use this information to provide the IP address.

[admin]

if you're using the workflow stubs you would fire the vCO workflow in the BuildingMachine stub so you can assign the property as ShibbyB described so this would get picked up by provisioning agent.  I think there's samples of this in the extensibility guides and training.  If vCO is the tool of choice you would probably look to the vCAC plugin to set the property via OData/REST API.