I cannot seem to set a static IP address in the "firstboot" section of my kickstart script. Everything else-- DNS, Hostname, Local datastore name, etc-- works great. The servers always come up using DHCP. I've used every flag in the Guides, and seen lots of sample scripts online, and just for good measure, I have thrown most of what I've found into the script, as seen below.
#Assign an IP-Address to the first VMkernel, this will be used for management
network vswitch add --vswitch-name=vSwitch0
network vswitch standard policy failover set --active-uplinks=vmnic0
network vswitch standard portgroup add --portgroup-name=VMKernel --vswitch-name=vSwitch0
network --bootproto=static --device=vmnic0 --ip=[desired IP] --gateway=[static default gateway] --netmask=255.255.255.0 --addvmportgroup=0
Thanks for any help, in advance.