HP Converged Architecture 700 Deployment Manual page 84

Create a New Kickstart File for Use by HPE OneView for VMware vCenter
Enhanced Grow Cluster
Currently, with an FCoE-based SAN, HPE OneView for VMware vCenter Enhanced Grow Cluster supports
only booting a server from a local disk. If you are booting from a SAN, add a new build plan for basic OV4VC
builds. This same build plan should set some parameters to tune the Nimble Storage array.
Create a New Kickstart File for Use by HPE OneView for VMware vCenter Enhanced Grow Cluster
Procedure
1 From the top left corner of the HPE ICsp UI, choose HP Insight Control Server Provisioning >
Configuration Files.
2 From the list of files on the left side, click ESXi 6.5 Kickstart.
3 Click Actions > Save as.
4 Name the new configuration file as HPE Grow Cluster – ESXi 6.5 Kickstart.
5 Click OK.
6 From the list of files on the left side, click HPE Grow Cluster – ESXi 6.5 Kickstart.
7 Hover your cursor over Configuration File and, to the right, click Edit.
8 Add the following lines to the kickstart file.
These lines must be added before the ## post-install script line in the kickstart file.
Note See Appendix B: ESXi 6.5 Kickstart File for Grow Cluster
## OV4VC custom values
%firstboot
## This will configure the management interface per the inputs into OV4VC
VMNIC=$(esxcli network nic list | grep -i @mgmt_mac_address@ | awk -F " " '{
print $1 }')
esxcli network vswitch standard uplink remove --uplink-name=vmnic0
--vswitch-name=vSwitch0
## This ensures we still have a vmk that uses DHCP so it can communicate to
ICsp.
## OV4VC Will remove this for us later
esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup add -p vmkDeployment -v vSwitch0
esxcli network ip interface add -i vmk9 -p vmkDeployment --mac-address
@mgmt_mac_address@
esxcli network ip interface ipv4 set -i vmk9 -t dhcp
## Add solution management ip
esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add --uplink-name=$VMNIC
--vswitch-name=vSwitch0
esxcli network ip interface ipv4 set --interface-name=vmk0 --ipv4=@ip_address@
--netmask=@net_mask@ --type=static
esxcli network ip route ipv4 add --gateway @gate_way@ --network default
esxcli network ip dns server remove --server "" -a
esxcli network ip dns server add --server @primary_dns_server@
esxcli network ip dns server add --server @alternate_dns_server@
esxcli system hostname set --host @host_name@ --domain @domain_name@
esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup set --portgroup-name "Management
Network" --vlan-id @vlan_id@
## Configure NTP
cat > /etc/ntp.conf << __END_NTP_CONFIG__
server @NTP_Server@
__END_NTP_CONFIG__
/sbin/chkconfig ntpd on
esxcli network firewall ruleset set --ruleset-id ntpClient --enabled yes
/etc/init.d/ntpd start
## Configure MAC address
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