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- #VMWARE ESXI 6.7 BOOTING TO PXE HOW TO#
- #VMWARE ESXI 6.7 BOOTING TO PXE INSTALL#
- #VMWARE ESXI 6.7 BOOTING TO PXE UPDATE#
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After the server got a DHCP address and contacted the TFTP server I got it to load the PXE menu. The second part was the hardest to get right (maybe because of missing googling skills on my part). This was straight forward on our servers (apart from missing the ability to script it.), we can set the VLAN for the PXE/DHCP server on the NICs used. First your NIC needs to support VLANing for PXE. I struggled a while to have the server reach the TFTP/DHCP server. In my environment we have our ESXi hosts on trunk ports and the TFTP and DHCP server is not located on the native VLAN. PXE booting on trunked portsĪ little note on PXE booting with trunk and VLANs. The new stuff includes a new menu entry where you add "ks= ipaddress to your tftp server/ path to ks.cfg" to point to your new kickstart script. MENU LABEL ESXi-6.5U1 ^Interactive installerĪPPEND -c esxi65u1/boot.cfg vlanid= ks= MENU LABEL ESXi-6.5U1 ^Interactive installer Modify the default (legacy) PXE menu to include your script.
#VMWARE ESXI 6.7 BOOTING TO PXE UPDATE#
To specify the kickstart file in UEFI PXE boot we'll update the boot.cfg file in the tftpboot root folder.Ĭhange the kernelopt= line to the following kernelopt=ks= At this point you should be able to PXE boot on UEFI with the default kickstart script. Google is your friend here :-)) chcon -R -reference=/var/www/html /var/lib/tftpboot/ksĪfter configuring the http service and have it serve your kickstart file it's time to update the PXE files to use this file. Now, you should be able to verify that it works by doing a curl to your ks file from http curl If you get an error stating you don't have access, you'll need to update the security context (Note that this depends on your system, when trying the same on a RHEL server we needed to do a semanage thingy. To have the http server serve your files you could either change the default www directory to your kickstart directory, or move/copy your kickstart files to the www/html dir, or even better just make a link to your ks directory :-) ln -s /var/lib/tftpboot/ks /var/www/html You also need to enable it through the Firewall sudo firewall-cmd -zone=public -add-service=http -permanent The http server needs to be enabled and started systemctl enable httpd In our scenario we will use HTTP for delivering the file, and we will use the http service installed in the previous post. There are many ways of making it available, you can include it with the image, on a USB drive, or at a network location (FTP, NFS or HTTP/HTTPS).
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The first thing to understand is that the file needs to be available somehow. To tie this up to the pxelinux default menu or the default option in UEFI boot we will change the default file. Check out VMware docs and William Lam's posts mentioned above for more details.
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We are running the install, setting a password, and after the installation we're doing some network customizations and enabling ssh. I won't go in to all the specific lines here, there's a lot happening. #Set password, either encrypted or unencryptedĮsxcli network vswitch standard uplink add -uplink-name vmnic1 -vswitch-name vSwitch0Įsxcli network ip dns search add -domain=Įsxcli network ip dns server add -server=192.168.1.1Įsxcli system maintenanceMode set -e trueĮsxcli system settings advanced set -o /UserVars/SuppressShellWarning -i 1 Even though many of them are for older ESXi versions they still apply.Ī generic ks file could look something like this: # For more information about kickstart scripts be sure to check out VMware's extensive documentation, and of course William Lam's many posts, on the topic. We'll start customizing with adding a generic kickstart file under a new ks directory. The default (and at this point only) PXE menu is configured in the pxelinux.cfg/default file (used in legacy PXE boot) Kickstart scripts The tftp server root is located at /var/lib/tftpboot and my images is stored as directories under this directory. Let's take a look at the current environment
#VMWARE ESXI 6.7 BOOTING TO PXE HOW TO#
The kickstart file (ks.cfg) it self and how to point to it during PXE boot. There's two new components to discuss here.
#VMWARE ESXI 6.7 BOOTING TO PXE INSTALL#
In this post we will enhance the PXE install with customized kickstart files specific for the hardware we want to install. This blog post will be building on a previous post where I built a small PXE server environment for ESXi installation.