I have recently moved a VMWare ESX 3 cluster to our tier 2 data center. The old cluster (IBM x3655 servers) were replaced by new IBM 3850 M2 servers quad – quad core 2.9ghz Xeons with 64 gigs of RAM. I am now tasked with renaming and IPing the systems at the “tier 2 location”. Since I was stuck at the collocation until 4 am the morning of the collocation revamp, I only wired all the servers up and configured the management cards.
esxcfg-vswif -i 192.x.x.x -n 255.255.255.0 vswif0
vi /etc/sysconfig/network
- change hostname
- change gateway
vi /etc/hosts
- change hostname and ip for new server
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips/ifcfg-vswif0
- change IPADDR value to new IP
Once the configuration changes have been made, you can execute the following to get tcp/ip connectivity:
execute /etc/init.d/networking restart
Note: I had to restart the server to get the hostname to update correctly to the vmvi server and web interface.
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