drthiruna
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Hi 

Thanks for the immediate reply

As you replied, the ESXi will not support assignment of static IP address to the VMs, correct? Is this limitation only in ESXi 6.0 U3 or in latest versions of ESXi?

My requirement is installing a packetfence ZEN on a VM as described below. 

https://www.packetfence.org/doc/PacketFence_Installation_Guide.html#_installing_packetfence_from_the...

4.1. Installing PacketFence from the ZEN
The ZEN (Zero Effort NAC) edition of PacketFence allows you to rapidly get PacketFence running in your network environment. It consists of a fully installed and preconfigured version of PacketFence distributed as a virtual appliance. It can be deployed on VMware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and other products. This section covers the deployment of the virtual appliance on VMware-based products. 

I downloaded the OVF file from packetffence site

4.1.1. Virtual Machine
This setup has been tested using VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation products with 12 GB of RAM dedicated to the virtual machine. It might work using other VMware products. To properly run the PacketFence virtual appliance, you need a CPU that supports long mode. In other words, you need to have a 64-bit capable CPU on your host. PacketFence ZEN comes in a pre-built virtual disk (OVF). If you are using an ESX type hypervisor, you need to import the OVF using vSphere Client (or vCenter). 

I imported the downloaded OVF in ESXi and created the VM in ESXi 6.0 U3

First network card of virtual machine is configured to receive an IP through DHCP.

I am having no idea on this. How to do it in ESXi?

4.1.2. Import to ESX
Make sure that there is only one virtual network card created, and also make sure that your vEthernet is connected to a virtual switch (vSwitch). That virtual network card will be used as the PacketFence management interface.

https://ip_of_packetfence:1443/

As above I created VM with OVF file provided by the packetfence in the ESXi 6.0 U3. I assigned a static IP address to the management network. I tried to assign the IP address for the VM. But there is no option for that in the ESXi.  

You mentioned that option is not available in ESXi 6 U3. 

I am not clear to proceed further in this stage. How to proceed with ESXi 6,0 U3?

 

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