[sles-beta] SLES12 network interface names
Olaf Kirch
okir at suse.de
Mon Mar 24 09:04:22 MDT 2014
On Monday 24 March 2014 15:57:34 urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
> Hi Olaf
>
> >So, will vmware leave at least the MAC address intact?
>
> Yes unless the type of driver changes in the VM client config, e.g.from
> Intel to vmxnet3, the MAC keeps being the same. But this is a different
> story.
>
> See, my concern is, that I usually have to install a server remotely
> without having seen the HW before. The only thing I have, is the MAC I can
> get either by API from the HP Proliant ILO remote console, or by API from
> the VMware Vspere client configuration.
>
> In both cases I then need to "translate" the MAC of the first interface in
> the list to some name to generate my autoinst.xml In my case the first
> interface in the list is cabled and has an open Firewall as setup
> interface for network setup.
Okay, this makes sense, and I think this should not be too hard to address.
Let's see what we can come up with.
Olaf
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