kickstart without DHCP?

[GBrown1983]

We are using kickstart (and puppet) to deploy linux servers, the problem is – there is no DHCP on our network. Is there a way to automate the linux provisioning?

All info I could find is that I must use DHCP for kickstart.

We are using vRA 7 (new environment)

[CalmCloud]

One option is to create ISOs with network identity for each build.

How did you do it?

[wllp]

Hi, are you able to use the kickstart without the DHCP? We do not have DHCP on our environment too.

[GBrown1983 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

We are able to do this with kickstart and vSphere customization.  vRA pass the network configuration to the customization process.

so yes, no DHCP needed!

[agbiront]

Sorry for resurrecting an old post, but can you elaborate on how to do this? I also need to deploy from kickstart but I don't have an DHCP server. How can I leverage vSphere Customization during the deployment?

Thanks in advance