I am looking for suggestions on the best way to handle IP addressing for hosts that are auto-deployed. For small deployments I have been fine with hand-jamming the addresses for the vmknics to bring the auto-deployed hosts out of maintenance mode. But looking at much larger deployments I am not sure what is the best way to handle it?
I have thought about DHCP for all vmk networks, and while this seems like it could work out, something I want to avoid is having a bunch of hosts showing up as disconnected under the cluster just because they have rebooted and received new dhcp addresses. Any suggestions are appreciated. Just for the record I have vmks for mgmt, nfs, and vmotion x2 backed by 2x10gig physical nics.
I have thought about DHCP for all vmk networks, and while this seems like it could work out, something I want to avoid is having a bunch of hosts showing up as disconnected under the cluster just because they have rebooted and received new dhcp addresses. Any suggestions are appreciated. Just for the record I have vmks for mgmt, nfs, and vmotion x2 backed by 2x10gig physical nics.