Shared Disks and IP addressing

[bluedrake]

Hi All

I recently created a shared disk, I ran the following line

vmkfstools -c 500G -d eagerzeroedthick -a lsilogic /vmfs/volumes///satashare.vmdk

Once that was done, i turned off the vitrual machines and attached the drive:

• Attached it on a sperate scsi controler

• Added it as a independent persistent drive

• Changed the new scsi controler to a virtual device

Once i have added the drive to the 4 virtual machines and started them all up, i found out that the network cards on the servers had lost thier IP addresses.

When i tried to re-apply the IP address I got the error stating that the IP address was already in use and that it could cause problems.

I then removed the shared drive and the new scsi controller and then the original IP address came back ....

Any sergestions?

Thanks for all the help in advance

[AndreTheGiant]

As I remember adding new SCSI controller, change the PCI order, and could change the vNIC order.

You have to first add your controller, then the NIC card.

Andre

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[bluedrake]

There is only on nic per server, so not sure how they could get mixed up.... though i could try this.

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

See also:

Andre

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[bluedrake]

Thanks that must be it, as those are the symtops im getting.... will run some tests

[AndreTheGiant]

You're welcome.

Andre