Question regarding install of ESX 4.0 and selecting local network

[pclark6127]

I am hoping someone can help me.

I am installing ESX 4.0 and in the GUI it asks which card I want to use for "System Utilities" then it asks me to input an IP address and it say's vmnic0 as the label. This is where I am putting my public info such as local IP, gateway, dns, etc... Once VMWare finishes and reboot's I get a message saying to download tools from the local IP I input. The problem is I can't ping this IP even though the test say's there were no problems detected on input. Also the MAC address of VMNIC0 corresponds w/the port I am using on my local network off of the server so I know my cable is plugged into the correct network. If I do an ifconfig from the console it shows all of my VMNIC's w/no address on VMNIC0 but it looks like it's assgined to a virtual switch because that comes up last in the list w/my local IP assigned to it.

What am I doing wrong? I need to be able to access this node to add it to VCenter but can't seem to get it on my local network.

Thanks for any help.

[sbeaver]

From the service console can you post the printout of this command please

esxcfg-vswitch -l

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[pclark6127]

Thanks.. Here is the output

VSwitch 0 Number of Ports Used Configured

32 3 32

Port Group Name VLAN ID Used Uplinks

VM Network 0 0 vmnic0

Service Console 0 1 vmnic0

[mcowger]

That looks right.

How about 'ping yourgatewayip' and the output of esxcfg-vswif -l

--Matt

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