On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:36 PM, jimmy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I'm using puppet enterprise and am getting a feel for the vmware > provisioning. I've been able to provision vms by using: > > puppet node_vmware create NameOfMyTemplate > > That sort of works, but I basically have an identical copy of the original > vm i created a template from. Same mac address, hostname, etc. in > vSphere, you can create a vm from a template and give it a guest > customization file which will set the hostname, autogenerate the mac > address as well as other things. I'd like to do this from puppet but there > doesn't appear to be an option to apply a customization file. > This question is probably better suited for the PE Users list [1]. I'm surprised the new vm is getting the same MAC address. Cloning a template should result in the new VM getting a new MAC address, and we recommend using DHCP to get an address for the instance. What version of vSphere are you running? This information might have something to do with the difference in behavior. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/puppetlabs.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pe-users -Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
