Persistent Static Routes on VCSA 6.5

Recently I updated a clients environment from vCenter Appliance 6.0U3 to 6.5U2. Until version 6.5 of VCSA, the operating system dispatched with the Appliance was SUSE, with VCSA 6.5 you get the new open source minimal Linux container host optimized, Photon OS. With VCSA 6.5 embedded VUM there was the need to enable… Continue reading

Remove and Re-Create Management Network (vmk0) VMkernel interface using ESXi Command line

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As you may know, ESXi Management interface (aka vmk0) is created during installation. By default that interface will inherit MAC address of one of the physical NIC cards. Now, this is not a problem at all in most cases, but sometimes it can create problems. For example imagine a situation… Continue reading