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Baboontester
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VCenter will not talk after installed

Good afternoon! I am in the process of deploying a new vCenter 7.0.3 but running into an issue where I can't connect to it or ping it. I have attempted to install this on both (newly built) ESXi Hosts via GUI and CLI with the same result. The vCenter VM is up and running and on the home screen where the IP/FQDN are listed and looks to be normal. I have checked the vSwitch and networking on the host and that all seems to be ok but I'm not convinced as it can't pull DHCP when trying to install without a static. The ESXi Hosts are in the same subnet and working on the network properly. Please see attached screenshot of the CLI error I'm getting as well as the installerlog.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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Baboontester
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Just in case anyone else is having this issue, I was using 7.0U3L and must be a bug....the fix was I used 7.0U3M and its working perfectly.

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RajeevVCP4
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As I understand you want dynamic IP instead of static IP

then you need configure it manually

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenter.configuration.doc/GUID-F5F3...

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-networking/GUID-CD5D4DFE-4A3D-44D5-BAAC-CEE272...

Or if you are using static ip

is it pingable from ESXI host ?

Rajeev Chauhan
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Baboontester
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My apologies if my OP was confusing. I have tried both dynamic and static with no success. When trying DHCP, it won't pull an address at all. When trying to set a static, it will not communicate with the network (I cannot ping, etc)

I have installed a Windows Server on the same ESXi Hosts and same vSwitch and it pulled DHCP just fine and can talk to the network so I no longer think it's related to the networking side of  ESXi

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Just in case anyone else is having this issue, I was using 7.0U3L and must be a bug....the fix was I used 7.0U3M and its working perfectly.

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