Change View ESXi hosts and Vcenter Ip addresses

[moogeboo]

Hi,

Because of our re-zoning, we need to change the IP addresses of all of our View ESXi hosts, as well as our View vCenter server.  Is this even possible without corrupting the ADAM DB that View uses?

Thank you

Mooge

[mikebarnett · Accepted solution]

If your ESX hosts are added to vCenter by hostname and your vCenter is added to View by hostname you should be able to make this change without impacting View.

If your vCenter is added by IP then you will run into issues.

If your ESX hosts are added by IP then you can use maintenance mode to migrate all VMs off each host, remove it from inventory and then add it back to the cluster using the new IP or hostname. View should have no issues with this as we don't reference the hosts by their hostname in any kind of static way.

-Mike

[moogeboo]

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Thank you,

Anthony