The most reliable way to change IP address for the Photon OS appliance is the command line. Although VAMI gives one option to change IP, it has not always worked for me. Here is a simple command-line procedure to re-IP your appliance. Let’s get the interface names with this command Set the IP for the…
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How I lost and recovered my vCenter server
My network team is doing tech refresh and they decided that along with hardware change, they want to change IP range. Hence I was tasked to perform re-IP of vCenter. You can read how to change IP of VCSA here : https://angrysysops.com/2021/03/25/vsphere-7-how-to-change-the-fqdn-and-ip-pnid-address-of-vcenter-server-appliance/. I had to consider how to access my VCSA once I put it…
Read moreHow to find iDrac IP Address from VMware ESXi
Solution was tested on both DELL and Cisco UCS boxes. SSH to ESXi hosts Log with root account Run the command lines shown below to get the idrac IP address: The iDRAC IP is displayed in the row “IPv4 Address”. The iDRAC IP is displayed in the row “IPv4 Address”. If you have a questions,…
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