Deploying Desktops with Static IP addresses

[Harpstein]

Does anyone know if it is possible to deploy desktops to a pool using static IP addresses? All I've been able to read about is using DHCP. We can't use DHCP here because of a couple of enterprise applications. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

[mikefoley]

You might want to read this article for more info on how VC manages sysprepping the templates that you deploy from.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/65215

Looks like they inject a .cmd file that runs netsh to set the params.

You could probably create a runonce script that pulls a unique, un-used IP address from a database and sets it with netsh.

mike

[nasterizer]

We have some apps that require certain access lists to be created with the specifed IP's that will be allowed. To tackle this problem I reserved a list of IP's through our DHCP and manually assigned them to the guest. Of course these were only 18 machines so if you have a larger deployment this wouldnt be very helpful.