Hello,
We have a vm running Server 2016 WDS & MDT that we are using to deploy images to new client laptops. The PXE boot component only intermittently works for laptops though. Sometime a reboot of the vm will get it working, sometimes, a complete shutdown and restart will get it working, but sometimes it won't.
However, if I PXE boot another vm on the same ESXi host it will work all the time (this is how i built my image), even when it won't work for laptops. If I move the client vm to another ESXi host then PXE boot will be intermittent again. Until I move the VM running WDS to the same ESXi host then it works everytime again!
So to me it looks like there is an issue with the PXE/TFTP traffic leaving/returning to the vm via the ESXi server.
How do i go about troubleshooting this further? What ESXi commands can i use?
The problem was experienced on ESXi 6.5 and 6.5 update 1, all ESXi hosts have been updated today, and the issue still exists.
Thanks in advance.
Carl Gray