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Rudiyanto
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vcenter server with 2 IP address

hi guys,

need your help, we face issue in our vcenter server. vcenter cannot started with 2 ip addresses. before that i saw it was running properly but after restart the server, vcenter cannot started.

it can start with only 1 ip address . in vcenter, all of host server use segment 2.x

vcenter 2 ip address : Ethernet 1 : 192.168.1.x ( management)

                                    Ethernet 2 : 192.168.2.x ( communication to host)

host : ip address 192.168.2.x

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Beingnsxpaddy
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Hi Rudiyanto​,

What version of vCenter and is it an appliance or windows box installation.

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Pradhuman

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Rudiyanto
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hi Beingnsxpaddy,

version vcenter is 6.0

appliance is version 5.1 and 6.0

thanks

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Beingnsxpaddy
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Now its not clear whether its vCenter 6.0 or 5.1, and where do you have 2 NIC (IP address) 5.1 or 6.0?

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Rudiyanto
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i use 2 nic card on vcenter server which use version 6.0

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Beingnsxpaddy
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Ok and vCenter is an appliance, not windows deployment.

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Beingnsxpaddy
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To start with configuring multi-homed appliance is an unsupported deployment, not sure if that has been supported with latest release or not. better to open a case with GSS and see if they have started supporting such deployment with version 6.0

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Pradhuman

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diegodco31
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Hi

The multi-homing is support only 6.5 and 6.7 version.

Check if the following VMware KB article helps: VMware Knowledge Base

How to configure additional vNICs for older releases of the VCSA, this is currently not officially supported by VMware.

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/02/caveats-when-multi-homing-the-vcenter-server-appliance-6-x-w...

Diego Oliveira
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bryanvaneeden
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This behaviour is normal if you added and configured the 2nd NIC through the console on the vCenter. We've had this before. It's in memory but not saved. So if you restart the vCenter it looses the configuration for the 2nd NIC.

You should add the NIC through the VAMI on port 5480. It is unsupported in vCenter 6.0, yes, but you can use it. We've been using it for years since version 5.1 with succes.

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