The EDA is typically used in enterprise environments where it not only deploys new ESX hosts but also redeploys them in case of an error.
Networks in enterprise environments are almost always using VLANs.
make sure the ESX ip addresses are in the SAME ip range as the EDA. very important, it will not work if they're on different subnets. only if you can enter a VLAN tag in your BIOS for pxe (like some dell machines can), can you use EDA on a tagged network. in all other cases, you [...]