Jarrod Johnson
801e43936c
Revise ESXi routed deployment
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-Have apiclient set timeout on getting credential to avoid hang
-Change dcuiweasel to start shell earlier for better debug
-Do not expire the ident token if deployment is armed continuous anyway
2022-08-19 16:06:46 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
2aed973a8b
Have apiclient check all hosts for connectivity
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Further allow it to output the result and feed that to esxi startup.
2022-08-08 11:18:35 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
c1ad4357dc
Fix for loop variable name
2022-07-27 08:37:09 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
9987cb5c03
Advance state of routed esxi deployment
2022-07-27 07:51:41 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
e8d2f550b8
Draft work on ESXi identity image deployment
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Prepare for routed deployment of ESXi
2022-07-25 17:05:30 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
2058d1fba8
Add ESXi 8 support
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ESXi changes security policies, adapt
to navigate both old and new sorts of rules
2022-07-08 13:36:21 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
196ed31bee
Retry node api token retrieval, with message
2021-04-30 15:17:02 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
94e731274a
Add debug in case where ESXi has no network
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Do away with appearance of mysterious hang
2021-02-11 11:44:53 -05:00
Jarrod Johnson
50c150f4b4
Fixup issues in esxi deployment
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When installer boots, the autonic behavior it tries is discarded
by default. Explicitly preserve the autonic behavior into
the install phase and the installed system.
2021-02-11 11:06:02 -05:00
Jarrod Johnson
674e2887f3
Fix ESXi deployment without working DHCP
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apiclient was instructing itself to use IPv4 prematurely. Change
the dcuiweasel hook to delay that change until after all data has been
fetched.
2021-01-05 11:55:30 -05:00
Jarrod Johnson
09db9f5a25
Pull ks.cfg manipulation into scripts
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This make it easier to customize rather than being
in addons.tgz
2020-06-11 10:29:22 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
654932efb6
Modify the correct line for ks manipulation
2020-06-11 10:26:16 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
f78b358cd7
Try to adapt for esxi6.7
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ESXi 6.7 had further restrictions
2020-06-11 09:26:40 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
8e203723ef
Further tweak esxi deployment support
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Try removing the exec, as memory seems
constrained in exec case for some reason.
Specify behavior when dealing with existing
vmfs.
2020-06-10 14:01:07 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
0a1409ffcf
Amend esxi update
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Some mistakes were made in the profile
2020-06-10 12:34:46 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
783c6ce7b6
Revise the esxi tar strategy
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Finally, it has been ascertained
that ESXi rejecting the tar
was due to not having directories
explicitly listed, not because of
forbidding new paths or compression.
2020-06-10 10:37:14 -04:00
Jarrod Johnson
197f9950cb
Add ESXi contents to OS deploy
2020-06-08 17:24:48 -04:00
