• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    And on top: ROK ISOs by hardware vendors by HPE (and probably lenovo) don’t have the trial time limit and can be run indefinitely without a license.
    You only need to satisfy the requirement of running a supported motherboard during boot of the iso.
    Well…Too bad that I can (unlike in ESXi) modify the manufacturer string in proxmox to say whatever I want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        3 hours ago

        At work we sell servers by HPE.
        We create Install-ISOs from the included install ISO.

        At boot the Installer checks if the system is manufactured by the vendor.
        If it is: It continues boot and offers you the installer options
        If it is not: It will fail with a message that the manufacturer doesnt match.

        On ESXi you need to pass the argument smbios.reflectHost = true (or something along those lines)

        Dunno how HPE customized the install.wim
        But you can probably get those for cheap on ebay and maybe compare the wims for differences.