Cannot edit vMotion TCP/IP stack's gateway

[vadm168]

Hi,

Environment:

VCSA 6.7 with ESXi 6.7

I built a couple of more ESXi 6.7U1 but while configuring the network, I notice I can't edit the "vMotion" TCP/IP stack's gateway. It's greyed out in both web client and HTML5 client. I don't have any vmkernal adapters using it. Is it possible to add the gateway to the vMotion stack? I understand normally vMotion network does not need to the gateway to route to other networks but since I was able to add the gateway to other ESXi hosts (while they were 6.5) before, I am wondering why I can no longer do the same.

Thanks,

[daphnissov · Accepted solution]

You can't edit a TCP/IP stack until there is at least one vmkernel port assigned.

[vadm168]

Thank you,daphnissov!

It's rather strange that when creating a vmkernel port, it has an option to override the gateway in the selected TCP/IP stack but the gateway can't be specified until at least one vmkernel port is created.