How to use hammer to set boot order while provisioning VMware virtual machines?
Issue
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While creating a compute profile using
hammer compute-profile values create
command, there is noboot_order
attribute to specify.# hammer compute-profile values create --help VMware: --volume: name storage_pod Storage Pod ID from VMware datastore Datastore ID from VMware mode persistent/independent_persistent/independent_nonpersistent size_gb Integer number, volume size in GB thin true/false eager_zero true/false controller_key Associated SCSI controller key --interface: compute_type Type of the network adapter, for example one of: VirtualVmxnet3 VirtualE1000 See documentation center for your version of vSphere to find more details about available adapter types: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ compute_network Network ID or Network Name from VMware --compute-attributes: cluster Cluster ID from VMware corespersocket Number of cores per socket (applicable to hardware versions < 10 only) cpus CPU count memory_mb Integer number, amount of memory in MB path Path to folder resource_pool Resource Pool ID from VMware firmware automatic/bios/efi guest_id Guest OS ID form VMware hardware_version Hardware version ID from VMware memoryHotAddEnabled Must be a 1 or 0, lets you add memory resources while the machine is on cpuHotAddEnabled Must be a 1 or 0, lets you add CPU resources while the machine is on add_cdrom Must be a 1 or 0, Add a CD-ROM drive to the virtual machine annotation Annotation Notes scsi_controllers List with SCSI controllers definitions type - ID of the controller from VMware key - Key of the controller (e.g. 1000)
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6
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