By default, hosts provisioned with vSphere Auto Deploy are assigned DHCP addresses by a DHCP server. You can use the vSphere Auto Deploy host customization mechanism to assign static IP addresses to hosts.
Prerequisites
- Set up your vSphere Auto Deploy environment.
- Boot the host using vSphere Auto Deploy.
- Extract a host profile from the host.
Procedure
- In the vSphere Client, select .
- Under Policies and Profiles, click Host Profiles.
- Select the host profile that you want to edit and click the Configure tab.
- Click Edit Host Profile.
- Change the default IP address settings by locating .
- From the IPv4 address drop-down menu, select User specified IP address to be used while applying the configuration.
- If the host is in a different subnet than the vCenter Server system, select and enter the default route in the Default IPv4 gateway text box.
- Select .
- Make sure the Flag indicating if DHCP should be used check box is deselected.
- Right-click the host and select .
- Select the profile to attach, and click Next.
- Provide the IP address and net mask, and click Finish.
- Reboot the ESXi host.
Results
The IP address is saved as a host customization and applied to the host.