Hi all,
I’m deploying RancherOS on VMs in my VMware vCenter environment with netboot.xyz - which was recommended to me via a Rancher Employee on Slack. However, I’ve built 6 nodes with 1 actually being successful in functioning properly (aka it boots without errors and installs VMware tools) however, the other 5 nodes that I’ve setup all present me with this error:
And it appears that VMware tools never gets installed. I can SSH into the host, ping and lookup domains and even resolve 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I’ve added exceptions on my firewalls to whitelist and docker and rancher domains. Anyone else seeing this issue? Is RancherOS the right choice? I’m open to using something like Ubuntu but seems slightly bloated but maybe better supported? Thoughts?
By default rancheros-vmware.iso has already been auto-format. If you want use noformat iso you can build from master using the command VMWARE_AUTOFORMAT=0 make vmware
So is the point to not install rancheros-vmware.iso to disk, but simply run it from the iso with persistent data being written to the drive? I found this: https://github.com/rancher/os/issues/2369 which seems to indicate this is the case?
yeah we saw that and had no clue so used the generic ISO. I think I got this advice from support. Seemed to work out fine, ignoring the other traps and pitfalls.