Sorry, I should have been more specific . . . I'm going to be provisioning
in a clustered vmware environment, which I have never done before. Is
running without DHCP ok in that context?
Thanks again,
Guy
Hi! I’d love to set up foreman in my new environment but DHCP is not
allowed . . . I haven’t worked with foreman in a couple of years; will I
be missing much functionality without DHCP?Thanks a lot!!
Guy,
Welcome back to Foreman! DHCP is much more related to how your
networking, routing, and firewalling is setup than it is about VMware, but
I admit there could be grey area in there.
Without DHCP, you can't provision by PXE boot. So if you're looking to
have VMs and Bare Metals to boot from a network interface and reach out to
Foreman to load the OS, then you're going to need DHCP. Otherwise you'd
have to look at compute resources or the discovery plugin to manage system
images for provisioning…I'm not familiar with either of those.
FWIW, I run Foreman+Smart-Proxy+DHCP/TFTP on a VMWare VM. The ESX servers
are clustered, but all of that is beyond my scope and run by folks on
another team. With regard to DHCP, it all works great as long as I
convince the Networking team (not the VMWare team) into adding DHCP helpers
on the routers for any subnets (or VLANs) I need Foreman to provision on.