Hello! I'm hoping that someone can help us out, as we're experiencing an issue that I'm guessing folks have run into before.
I work for a company that has a separate VLAN/subnet for each department and remote location in the company. So one remote location may have an range of 100.100.100.x but another remote location would be 100.100.101.x. We have configured separate network adapters in vcenter for each of these VLANs. And once connected, they obtain their IP via DHCP/DHCP reservations.
Many of our remote locations and departments can use a single golden image that's customized via scripts from there. Each of our locations are also required to have their own desktop pool because machine names in each of our departments/remote locations have to be consistent and specific.
However, the inability to choose a network adapter on a desktop pool level is causing problems. This seems to be only be configurable on the golden image VM in VCenter that's assigned to that desktop pool, but when you have different desktop pools that use the same golden image but need different network adapters assigned it's causing a problem.
I did read some articles about the network label specification file generation, however that isn't going to work with our environment because we'd require more flexibility with VM naming schemes.
Has anyone else devised a convenient and streamlined way to use a single golden image across multiple VLANs in their environment?
Thank you!