Looks like your SC vswitch (vswitch0) has a uplink to vmnic0 which shows as up. Looks like your original 2 NIC's were moved to vmnic2 and vmnic3. Try setting a static address as suggested using the command esxcfg-vswif -i <ip address> -n <subnet mask>
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If you have to use DHCP try releasing and renewing your address by doing "esxcfg-vswif -i 172.20.20.20 -n 255.255.255.0 vswif0" and then "esxcfg-vswif -i dhcp vswif0"
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got back the following messages
Determining IP information for vswif0... failed.
Error trying to perform operation Exec of command '/sbin/ifup/ vswif0' suceeded, but returned with non-zero status:1.
Okay, I even tried setting ip address static. It assigned the ip to the service console.
But the ESX Server still shows as 'not responding' from the Virtual Infrastructure Client.
If you right click the host do you get the connect option? Can you ping it from the VC?
If so and you do not have the connect option you could remove it fronm the cluster and then re-add it.
the ESX server itself is greyed out along with all the VM's. Right click shows the connect option greyed out also.
Could not ping also. What do you mean and how do you remove from cluster and re-add it?
Do you mean re-creating virtual switch, portgroup, and vswif for the service console? Thanks.
You would right click the host and select remove. If this does not work or
is not available there are other things to do to remove it. Give this a try
and see what option you have. To re add it you would right click the cluster
and select add host and go through the wizard.
So, this is what I did:
I closed and reopened the Virtual Infrastructure and disconnected the host. Still did not work.
Then reassigned the vmnic0 port cable to vmnic1 port and vice versa. Rebooted the ESX.
That seem to do the trick. Now ESX is up and running.
Thanks for all the help guys.