William, Sorry I am late to respond.. and I also further apologize as I seem to have misread your request.. I missed the part about koan, unfortunately I've never used koan to provision in my setup, I like you had too many issues getting it working right. Instead I used scripts that acted directly with ESXI CLI, kvm (virt-install), etc. to boot new virtual machines, which would then install the default profile via pxe boot, self register with cobbler and then reinstall to the appropriate OS/settings (based on settings within the default profile, and or script, which I changed depending on the install.)
I looked through my files, and I have some of my scripts, but I don't have any of the cobbler settings themselves. If possible could you provide the output for any errors that you are getting? I could help you take a look (it would also be nice to finally get around to learning koan... :) ). Respectfully, Scott (((FYI, (although it's not related to your issue) I am also attempting to build a potential upgrade to cobbler that will hopefully allow OS/Configuration for rack-scale installations based on switch/switchport of the installed server,))) ******************************************************* Scott Mattan 【マッタン・スコット】 NISCOM Inc. Software Service Solution Department Tel:03-6681-4305 / Mobile:080-4223-2306 ******************************************************* On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:24 PM, William Muriithi <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Scott, > > > > I haven’t used cobbler with ESXI in a while, so I don’t exactly remember > > what the parameters were... but I know that you need to have a couple of > > kernel options set in your profile. I had my setup completely automated, > > but it got erased when my section got reorganized. Ideally you should be > > able to press the power-button and have your OS installed, updated, and > > setup for you. Admittedly, what I mostly worked with was kvm or > bare-metal, > > but I had some ESXI servers in the loop as well. > > Thanks for that info. It mean its well supported on ESXI, I just have > to figure out how to do it > > > > > Let me see if I have any notes from left over from that project. In the > > meantime if anyone else knows the answer off the top of their head please > > let us know. > > I am at work right now, so it might be ~7 hours or so before I can get > back > > to you, but since we are likely in different time-zones, I'm sure that > isn't > > a problem. > > > No problem Scott, take your time. I really appreciate your effort and > look forward to your notes. > > I am curious, where one should run the command below, it looks like on > the ESXI, reading between lines, but none of the articles online > highlight that explicitly. > > koan --virt --server=cobbler.eng.example.com --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64 > --virt-type=vmware --virt-name=lithium.eng.example.com > > If its on ESXi, how do you install koan to virtual machine thats don't > have a operating system yet? I have a system with the virtual machine > already setup on cobbler side as follows: > > cobbler system add --name=lithium --hostname=lithium.eng.example.com > --gateway=192.168.20.168 --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64 > --dns-name=lithium.eng.example.com --mac=00:50:56:9e:fe:1a > --ip-address=192.168.20.3 --subnet=255.255.255.0 --status=production > --interface=em1 --static=1 > > Regards, > William > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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