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Orf Gelbrich
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Register ESXi Host with vCenter using its Hostname

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- The ESXi hostname and its IP address should be In DNS

- vCenter server should be able to resolve ESXi hostname (both short and FQDN)

- UCS Director server also should be able to resolve ESXi hostname (both short and FQDN)

- Under the Regsiter Host with vCenter task, unmap/uncheck the PXEBoot Request ID and Host Node

- In the following page of the task, uncheck the PXE ID option. It will ask you to enter hostname, username and password (root/password)

- For hostname you can enter either of the below formats

    ${ESXI_HOSTNAME}.domain.com or

    ${ESXI_HOSTNAME}

The Task in the TaskLibrary:

Screen Shot 2015-01-08 at 6.53.48 AM.png

The Fields:

Screen Shot 2015-01-08 at 6.54.09 AM.png

Thank you Phani Penmethsa for the contribution.

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