When virtual interfaces (VIFs) are being configured, unique IDs of the VIFs have to be configured to be used as the segment port.

Ansible support modes are a set of automated scripts that set up the application interface for bare metal servers.

  • Static Mode - Application interface IP Address is configured manually.
  • DHCP Mode - Application interface IP Address is configured dynamically.
  • Migrate Mode - This mode supports management and application sharing the same IP address. Also called underlay mode or VLAN-0.
For all Linux or Windows VM and physical machines:
  1. Install Ansible based on the operating system: –https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html
  2. Run the command ansible-version, and check that Ansible is version is 2.4.3 or later.
  3. Download and extract the Bare Metal integration with NSX-T Data Centerfrom Github: –https://github.com/vmware/bare-metal-server-integration-with-nsxt
For Windows Bare Metal Servers only:
  1. Install pip for pywinrm.
  2. Install pywinrm, and run pip install pywinrm.