Hello all,
I'm running a small vmware view 5 environment here on 3 esxi hosts. Each of these hosts has a few nics which are zoned for a specific VLAN which has a range of DHCP addresses we want to use for our VDI environment. The problem I am running into is that when I create a linked clone pool of about 20 VMs, half of them get IP addresses in the DHCP range and half of them get a 169.254.xxx.xxx IP (which is bogus) and does not have any internet connectivity, causing the provisioning process to be stuck in the "customizing" stage forever and eventually the connection server gives up because it can't reach the VM. I am able to solve this by manually refreshing each of the clones which does not work, however sometimes I need to do 2 or 3 refreshes before it works. Does anyone have any insight into why this might be happening? I already know the following:
-best practices say to do a ipconfig /release on the clone master before you power off/ snapshot for the baseline. I have done this.
-DHCP range has more than enough addresses (over 100, only 20 clones)
-All the hosts can reach the subnet in question, I have gotten VMs with connectivity to this subnet and migrated it to every VM to ensure it still has internet connectivity.
Thanks in advance.