I was wondering if anyone had thoughts why I shouldn't do the following?
I would like to create a new DHCP scope for servers. I would set the lease to unlimited (and set a reservation for the MAC to be safe). I am trying to have DHCP be in charge of IP distribution (rather than some person looking up DNS and stuff for free IP addresses). The hope is that with the lease set to unlimited it will act as if it is a static IP.
It would play nicely I think when we do deployment of new servers. I am thinking of not using VM templates anymore but integrating VM server builds with WDS/MDT as well. By having default setting be DHCP, the above setup would play nicely.
I think that I can ensure myself of not having to worry about duplicates IPs. I can save our team a few minutes by not having us have to dig thru DNS (or some goofy spreadsheet) in search of free IP addys. This wouldn't be a case either of workstations that leave behind stale records if they're not on the network anymore.
It sounds good to me, but is there a good technical reason not to pursue the above? Would feel more comfortable if someone else has come across this decision before.
Thanks.