Providing infrastructure for ever-changing test systems is a challenge; the following section gives one solution to the problem.
You need to create two vApps. You will fill one with the entire infrastructure VMs such as DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, database servers, and mail servers.
The other vApp contains your test set of VMs that will make use of the infrastructure VMs.
Create an isolated Organization Network with a Static IP Pool.
Create a new vApp that will contain the infrastructure VMs.
Add the isolated network to the infrastructure vApp.
Connect the entire infrastructure VMs to the isolated network with manual IPs that are outside the range of the pool (for example,
.10 - .50
).Deploy the VMs so that they get the correct network settings.
Configure all the infrastructure VMs so that they work correctly.
Take a snapshot of the vApp, or add it to your catalog.
You are now ready to deploy your test set.
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