Hi, I am trying to enroll a VM using JAMF. After I enroll the VM I don't see it listed in the Mobile devices section in JAMF Pro. There are several other Mobile devices but they say they are unmanaged. Is there a specific configuration that I need to ESXI VMs to properly enroll them.
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Enrolling ESXI VMware VM in JAMF
+5Why are you looking in the Mobile Devices section? Any VM is going to be in the Computers section.... mobile devices is for iPhone/iPad. Beyond that, nothing specific, it should treat it like any other machine. Been a while since I did this with anything on ESXi, but from what I recall it was exactly the same as a VM in VMWare Fusion, just treated it like a normal machine.
+25@user-qOMhbfTbeG See this web page: Automated MDM Enrolment and VMWare Fusion. As the title indicates, it's directions for VMware Fusion, but the .vmx changes are applicable for ESXi as well.
+7Because there's no DEP solution "at scale", we're using the following script to install the QuickAdd package on first boot: https://github.com/rtrouton/First-Boot-Package-Install (Thanks, @rtrouton !) Basically, I install the first-boot script, place all the packages I want to be installed into those folders, shut down the VM, and save it as a template. Then when that template is used to spin up a new VM, it installs those packages immediately. I've also added a piece to that script to reset the UUID of the device so it's unique in Jamf each time. I can share that here if there's interest!
I'd prefer to use something like what @sdagley posted above and get these machines enrolled using DEP. But alas, Apple doesn't support spoofed UUID's or serials in DEP so it's not really something I can put in a template.
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