What is a way to specify static IP settings to VMs during deployment?

Hi,

What is a way to specify static IP settings to VMs during deployment?

I think this is very smart to set a static IP4-Address during deployment (http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2013/03/06/vmm-2012-tip-how-to-assign-an-ip-address-using-powershell-during-deployment.aspx):

# Setup Vm Template from lab library
$Template= Get-SCVMTemplate | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "W2K12R2_STD_G2_Small"}
# Build Vm Configuration
$VMConfig = New-SCVMConfiguration -VMTemplate $Template -Name VMConfig01
#Update-SCVMConfiguration -VMConfiguration $VMConfig
$VNAConfig = Get-SCVirtualNetworkAdapterConfiguration -VMConfiguration $VMConfig
Set-SCVirtualNetworkAdapterConfiguration -VirtualNetworkAdapterConfiguration $VNAConfig -IPv4Address "10.0.0.4"
#submits new VM job to VMM
New-SCVirtualMachine -Name teststefan02 -VMConfiguration $VMConfig

But I need to specify also static gateways or DNS Servers. Can this be done like above?

(Reading this it seems to be not so easy: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/3b989d14-e74d-447b-adf1-09eea5686df1/virtualmachinemanager-set-ipv4address-and-dns-settings?forum=winserverpowershell)

The challenge is that I can't access the VMs after deployment to do any "netsh interface ip set*".

Is providing an answer file with the IP info an good option? How is the structure of the answer file to provide just the IP settings?

Regards,

Stefan

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