Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
Hi community, I have a litte problem which is confusing me. I wanted to change the IP address of a vmkernel which is used for vmotion -> because I wanted to add them to a seperate vlan. After...
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View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
To be able to help, I need some more details about the network configuration. Please post a screen shot of the vSwitch's setup and explain how the physical switch ports are configured. André
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Did you also resinstall the View Agent? (VMware Tools and View Agent is not the same thing.) // Linjo
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
ESXi is definitely not comparable with Windows (on which I agree with you with the clean installation) and I'd recommend you Upgrade the ESXi host rather than installing it. In case you want to install...
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View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
no problem - attached you will find the screenshot of the configuration. its a simple flat configuration without any vlans or anything else. management and vmotion is on the same subnet as the vm's...
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Thank you for your prompt reply. And I will not need to make those changes and readd VMs to the inventory etc. on an upgrade, correct? Bob
View ArticleRe: Upgrade/migrate from free to vCenter managed
There are a couple of option how this can be done.restore the VM's from the most recent backupuse e.g. Veeam's FastSCP to copy the VM's over to the new host (in case the virtual disks are NOT thin...
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Yes, with the upgrade option the settings will be migrated to the new version. André
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Thank you. You've been very helpful. Cheers. Bob
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View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
I still don't exactly understand what you are trying to do!? In your first post you mentioned that you wanted to have the vMotion network on a separate VLAN. Can you please explain how you plan to...
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