How to “fix” VCSA IP settings from command line.

More and more often customers are looking for an easier method to deploy their vsphere management.

Vcenter traditionally has been an application loaded on top of Windows. .. but “the times they are a changing”

There are more use cases that the business requirements will allow for deployment of vcenter appliance.

But here is a quick post to help you “fix” your IP configuration for your appliance. Sometimes during the deploy of the VCSA OVA there is a miss communication or fat finger incident.. Here is how to address that.

It also allows you to change hostname, DNS, default gateway and proxy.

Summary:

Open a console session of the VCSA
Login as: root
Default password is: vmware
Execute the following command: /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net

/opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net

 Main Menu

0)    Show Current Configuration (scroll with Shift-PgUp/PgDown)
1)    Exit this program
2)    Default Gateway
3)    Hostname
4)    DNS
5)    Proxy Server
6)    IP Address Allocation for eth0

After executing the command, a menu is displayed. Within the menu It is possible to change the IP address, hostname, DNS, Default gateway and proxy server.
After allocating a static IP Address to the VCSA, the post configuration can be done by using the following URL:

https://static-ip-address:5480

Symptoms:

VCSA was powered on.

ping was not responsive

Verified IP address

cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 showed

cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=’static’
STARTMODE=’auto’
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCONTROL=’no’
IPADDR=’10.72.60.53′
NETMASK=’255.255.255.192′
BROADCAST=’10.72.60.63′