DNS Naming

[dfoley1]

Hi All,

Currently Working on the Deployment of VRA within my Companies vSphere environment,

Active Directory machine OU Grouping is working and Machine prefixes is also working, What i am trying to figure out is every time I do a boot-up a machine within VRA it's taken the DNS of the Golden Image; I would like to know how do i get that Machine Name prefixe name as the DNS Name of the machine? also how do i join a Windows Domain for that Machine. using custom propties within the blueprint?

Thanks

[daphnissov]

All those questions are answered by using a vSphere Customization Spec in your blueprints.

[dfoley1]

Hi Daphnissov

Do you have a reference link for those custom properties ?

Thanks.

[daphnissov]

I'm not talking about custom properties here, I'm talking about a vSphere Customization Spec which is used to join Windows-based VMs to a domain and also set their host names (including DNS suffix). Click the Build Information tab.

[dfoley1]

Thank you for that I am now able to Join the Domain and DNS is added.

What is the best way to Remove DNS entries for machines that i remove from VRA?

[daphnissov]

For automatic removals, you will either have to wire up your own EBS subscription and vRO workflow to do this, or if you want a simpler, quicker, code-free way of handling automatic adds and removals you can check out one of the SovLabs modules which integrates with all forms of DNS out there (SolarWinds, Infoblox, Microsoft, etc.).

[dfoley1]

Thanks, For now i will try and use the embedded VRO within VRA 7.4 for the workflows.