Running SIMP on VMware (ESXi) - NIC Naming

[Mark Kraft]

I'm trying to ensure that the systems being kickstarted on our ESXi server get standard network interface names.

To override the new naming conventions in Centos7 I need to ensure that "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" gets appended to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.

Is there an augeasprovider for grub where I can globally add that to all new systems?  Or is there some way to ensure that kickstarted systems on VMware hosts get an eth0 network interface name?

Right now when I kickstart the interface is named:  eno167<5 numbers>

And SIMP configures the ifcfg to this interface.

Can I set it up so that the interface is eth0 and SIMP will configure to that name?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[Nick Miller]

If you're using our tftpboot module and example code, you can add those kernel parameters to the 'extra' parameter of the `tftpboot::linux_model` resource you're using.

That should set them to what you want.

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[Mark Kraft]

Easy enough... I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the quick response,

Mark

On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 1:46:20 PM UTC-6, Nick Miller wrote:

If you're using our tftpboot module and example code, you can add those kernel parameters to the 'extra' parameter of the `tftpboot::linux_model` resource you're using.

That should set them to what you want.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Mark Kraft <kra...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to ensure that the systems being kickstarted on our ESXi server get standard network interface names.

To override the new naming conventions in Centos7 I need to ensure that "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" gets appended to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.

Is there an augeasprovider for grub where I can globally add that to all new systems?  Or is there some way to ensure that kickstarted systems on VMware hosts get an eth0 network interface name?

Right now when I kickstart the interface is named:  eno167<5 numbers>

And SIMP configures the ifcfg to this interface.

Can I set it up so that the interface is eth0 and SIMP will configure to that name?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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[Trevor Vaughan]

If that doesn't do what you need, you can indeed use augeasproviders_grub to do what you need. It supports both GRUB and GRUB2 now.

Thanks,

Trevor

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