Hi Guys,
I'm trying to create a scvmm 2012 R2 service template of a test lab. The idea being users can self service AD environments to test things in. my ST has two tiers, a Domain Controller tier (only allowed 1 instance) and a member server tier which starts with a minimum of 0 but can be expanded to 10. The member servers are configured to join the domain created in the Domain Controller tier.
The problem I'm having is that I can't predict what IP the domain controller is going to have, so I can't set the DNS details in the IP Pool of the virtual network the ST will be using (I'm going to create an ST for each Virtual network).
I've tried configuring an application script to change the ip, but this then conflicts with the address assigned by the ip pool and the servers cannot communicate with each other. If I allow the guest to set its own ip address, they still can't communicate
I've seen some training on Azure and it suggested creating your DC first as the first machine always picks up the .4 address. I would have hoped VMM worked in the same way. I.e. I could predict the IP it would get. Does it work this way or is there a way to emulate this behaviour?
Chris Gibson