Bulk change ESX hosts console IP address

[alaszlo]

Hi,

I have about 200 ESX 4 hosts, and I have to change the IPs of every hosts vswif0 Console Interface.

Has somebody any suggustion, best practice? (if available, I would welcome a gui based solution, or script sceleton).

I have more questions about scripting:

- It seems, I have to use Plink

- I have to accept every SSH key on connection.

Regards,

Akos

[Cyberfed27]

Are all the hosts in the same vCenter?

I would imagine this could easily be done using PowerCLI/Powershell script.

[alaszlo]

Yes, same vCenter.

Could you please give me sample?

(I tried with plink, but we had problmes with gateway, etc.)

[Cyberfed27]

Since they are all in the same vCenter you wont need to re-authenticate to each host I do not think to make changes, assuming your vCenter account logon has full admin rights.

I'm sorry I can't write the code for you I dont have the time but look at the following powershell/powerCLI cmdlet

I believe the cmdlet you'll want to look at is:

Set-VMHostNetwork

Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter

If you don't know powershell this could be a bit of a learning curve as powershell is not the most elegant language to try and learn.

Best of luck.