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Mgreen2101
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vcenter multihoming presents wrong ip to hosts

In this environment I am required to have vcenter with several nics.  I have quite a few esx hosts working fine but I have two that I am having problems with.

vcenter is running windows 2008R2 on a MSSQL

Problem:

my vcenter ip addresses are 10.10.0.5 and 192.168.200.20

Host A need to connect to vcenter on 10.10.0.5

I join Host A and instead in vpxa.cfg and vpx.hosts table it lists the vcenter address as 192.168.200.20

Host B is on the 192.168.200.x subnet as 192.168.200.123

Host B tries to connect to vcenter on 10.10.0.5

192.168.200.x is NAT'd through 10.10.0.20

Host B connects to vcenter with a serverIP of 10.10.0.20 instead of 192.168.200.123 and while it stays connected you cannot clone or deploy templates to it.

Does anyone know why Vcenter would present the wrong IP address?

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Mgreen2101
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This is on vcenter and esxi 5.5

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rcporto
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Take in mind the NAT between vCenter and ESXi is not supported, but there are some workaround if you need this setup, take a look here: VMware KB: Using NAT between the vCenter Server system and ESXi/ESX hosts

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Richardson Porto
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