os/docs/os/running-rancheros/cloud/vmware-esxi/index.md

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Rancher RancherOS in VMware OSXi

VMware ESXi

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As of v1.1.0, RancherOS automatically detects that it is running on VMware ESXi, and automatically adds the open-vm-tools service to be downloaded and started, and uses guestinfo keys to set the cloud-init data.

VMware guestinfo

VARIABLE	TYPE
hostname	hostname
interface.<n>.name	string
interface.<n>.mac	MAC address (is used to match the ethernet device's MAC address, not to set it)
interface.<n>.dhcp	{"yes", "no"}
interface.<n>.role	{"public", "private"}
interface.<n>.ip.<m>.address	CIDR IP address
interface.<n>.route.<l>.gateway	IP address
interface.<n>.route.<l>.destination	CIDR IP address (not available yet)
dns.server.<x>	IP address
dns.domain.<y>	DNS search domain
cloud-init.config.data	string
cloud-init.data.encoding	{"", "base64", "gzip+base64"}
cloud-init.config.url	URL

Note: "n", "m", "l", "x" and "y" are 0-indexed, incrementing integers. The identifier for an interface (<n>) is used in the generation of the default interface name in the form eth<n>.