"Did not get an IP Address from DHCP server" when pxe installing ESXi5 on HP BL460c G7

[shunewae]

When i'm installing ESXi5 on HP BL460c G7, alert a window and displays the following message:

Error (see log for more info):

Error connecting to the network

Did not get an IP Address from DHCP server

At this point, login the interactive view, use command "localcli network ip interface ipv4 set --interface vmk0 --ipv4 *** --netmask *** --type static" to set a staitc ip to the host, and can connect to server now. So the NIC is supported.

The phenomena is the same as http://communities.vmware.com/thread/300818, but the solution that add the vlanid option into the pxe configuration is not effect for me.

Then, i add the IP options follow the ks in pxe configuration, it worked well. The pxe configuration as follow:

default linux
label linux
menu label ESXi-5.0.0-469512-standard ^Installer
kernel esxi5_64/mboot.c32
append -c esxi5_64/boot.cfg pxebooting ks=nfs://192.168.4.11/nfs/zonemgr/my-conf/78e3b5161880-ks.cfg-esxi5_64 ip=192.168.4.111 netmask=255.255.0.0 nameserver=192.168.4.11 ksdevice=78:e3:b5:16:18:80

But in really runtime, i cannot add the IP options, so how can i slove this problem? Thank you.

[vmroyale]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

Note: This discussion was moved from the VMware ESXi™ 4 community to the VMware ESXi 5 community.

Good Luck!

[slaclair]

shunewae wrote:

When i'm installing ESXi5 on HP BL460c G7, alert a window and displays the following message:

Error (see log for more info):

Error connecting to the network

Did not get an IP Address from DHCP server

At this point, login the interactive view, use command "localcli network ip interface ipv4 set --interface vmk0 --ipv4 *** --netmask *** --type static" to set a staitc ip to the host, and can connect to server now. So the NIC is supported.

The phenomena is the same as http://communities.vmware.com/thread/300818, but the solution that add the vlanid option into the pxe configuration is not effect for me.

Then, i add the IP options follow the ks in pxe configuration, it worked well. The pxe configuration as follow:

default linux
label linux
menu label ESXi-5.0.0-469512-standard ^Installer
kernel esxi5_64/mboot.c32
append -c esxi5_64/boot.cfg pxebooting ks=nfs://192.168.4.11/nfs/zonemgr/my-conf/78e3b5161880-ks.cfg-esxi5_64 ip=192.168.4.111 netmask=255.255.0.0 nameserver=192.168.4.11 ksdevice=78:e3:b5:16:18:80

But in really runtime, i cannot add the IP options, so how can i slove this problem? Thank you.

I have seen something similar in the past, in your append line instead of ksdevice could you try netdevice=vmnic0

[shunewae]

If you set the route in DHCP server but the route is unreachable,  will cause this problem.

[shunewae]

THe error route setting of DHCP will cause this problem.