PowerCLI : Set IP address of host??
1. Get mac address
2. power on vm
6. change IP addresess (can't bind to eth2 as it was off )
- get mac address of vm (powered on or off)
- set the mac address manually with vi using command line at /et/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
- Or use power CLI after powering on VM
- Power on vm,
- get ip addrress info.
- change ip address
- change <guestvm>.vmx file at
/vmfs/volumes/datastore3()/vmNAME will be added these lines as:
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "0"
time.synchronize.restore = "0"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "0"
time.synchronize.shrink = "0"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "0"
time.synchronize.tools.enable = "0"
time.synchronize.resume.host = "0"
1. Get mac address
get-networkadapter -vm fts-vm-stage2
Name Type NetworkName MacAddress WakeOnLan
Enabled
---- ---- ----------- ---------- ---------
Network adapter 1 Vmxnet3 VM Network 00:50:56:b0:70:34 True
2. power on vm
start-vm -vm fts-vm-prod2 -server fts-esxi-c2u23. Get ip address and mask.
Get-vmguestNetworkInterface -VM fts-vm-prod2 -GuestUser root -GuestPassword xxxxxx
VM Name IP IPPolicy SubnetMask
-- ---- -- -------- ----------
fts-vm-prod2 lo 127.0.0.1 Unknown 255.0.0.0
6. change IP addresess (can't bind to eth2 as it was off )
Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface -VMGuestNetworkInterface eth2 -GuestUser root -GuestPassword xxxxxxx-Ip 171.69.86.235 -Netmask 255.
255.254.0 -Gateway 171.69.86.1 -Dns 171.70.168.183,173.36.131.10