Change MTU in VCSA 6.5

[JagWireZ]

I need to lower the MTU for eth0 in the vCenter Server Appliance. This will be a persistent configuration. What is the proper way to do that for 6.5?

[Camero]

please refer to the following KB: Troubleshooting Tools for Networking on vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147148) | VMware KB ​

Photon OS Command

ip addr

ss

ip route

ip maddr

ip link set eth0 up

ip -s neigh

ip link set eth0 mtu 9000

[JagWireZ · Accepted solution]

Found the correct answer. I appreciate the above reply, but the "ip link" command only applies to the running configuration and is not persistent. So this command needs to be set during boot.

The instructions below were derived from https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/master/docs/photon-admin-guide.md#creating-a-startup-service:

1. Login to the vCenter bash shell prompt.
2. Type the following to create a new service that will set the MTU. (Replace 1460 with correct MTU size.)
   • cat << EOF >> /lib/systemd/system/eth0.service

[Unit] Description=Network interface initialization
After=local-fs.target network-online.target network.target
Wants=local-fs.target network-online.target network.target

[Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ip link set dev eth0 mtu 1460
Type=oneshot

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
3. Type the following to set the service to start at boot:
   • cd /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/
   • ln -s ../eth0.service eth0.service
4. Reboot vCenter Server to confirm the changes persist.

[dustinn3]

I wasn't able to get that to work but this did the trick

vi /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.network

Add

[Link]

MTUBytes=1450

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html

[JudgementDay]

Format of the file was incorrect. Got this working with below:

Login to the vCenter bash shell prompt.

Type the following to create a new service that will set the MTU. (Replace 1460 with correct MTU size.)

cat << EOF >> /lib/systemd/system/eth0.service
[Unit]
Description=Network interface initialization
After=local-fs.target network-online.target network.target
Wants=local-fs.target network-online.target network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ip link set dev eth0 mtu 1460
Type=oneshot

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Type the following to set the service to start at boot:

cd /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/
ln -s ../eth0.service eth0.service

Reboot vCenter Server to confirm the changes persist.