Automate Your Lab - Part 3 - DHCP

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The next step to your automated lab is to set up a DHCP server and to authorize it in your Active Directory. You can customize it completely with variables in the script.

You can define a range for DHCP with the variables $StartRange and $EndRange. Only IPs in that range will be assigned to machines. I make use of that feature in order to have some free IPs for my NetScaler SNIP, load balancer and gateways and I don’t have to worry about double assigned addresses. On top I always use 192.168.137.0/24 because 192.168.137.1 is the default IP of the internal Hyper-V network adapter. Follow this tutorial to set up internet access for Hyper-V VMs with an internal switch and NAT.

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Automate Your Lab - Part 3 - DHCP