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VMware Can Ping VMs But Can't Ping Management

I have an ESXi 5.0 machine I cannot ping, therefore I cannot log onto it via vCenter. I can ping VMs on the ESXi machine.

ESXi=10.0.2.50
VM on ESXi=10.0.2.30
vCenter on 10.0.1.0 network

Can I add a route to ESXi to tell it the route to 10.0.1.0 is 10.0.2.8? This is how I got the VMs to find 10.0.1.0, added a route to the Windows routing table. Is there an ESXi routing table?

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Drafter421

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I specified the gateway to the internet but that is different than the gateway to the 10.0.1.0.

Drafter421

ASKER

Internet = 10.0.2.6
To 10.0.1.0=10.0.2.8

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

okay, you will need to add another route, using the command esxcfg-route

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

~ # esxcfg-route --help
esxcfg-route <options> [<network> <gateway>] | <default gateway>
<network> can be specified in 3 ways:
* As a single argument in <IP>/<Mask> format
* Or as a <IP> <Netmask> pair.
* Or as 'default'

-a|--add Add route to the VMkernel,
requires <network> (described above)
and gateway IP address
-d|--del Delete route from the VMkernel.
Requires <network> (described above)
-l|--list List configured routes for the VMkernel
-n|--neighbor-list Show Neighbor Cache entries for the VMkernel
-f|--family <V4> or <V6> Address family to work on.
Defaults to V4.
-r|--restore Restore route setting to configured values
on system start. (INTERNAL USE ONLY)
-h|--help Show this message.

If no options are specified then it will print the default IPv4 gateway.
The default IPv4 gateway can be set directly as : esxcfg-route <gateway>

Examples:

To add a route to 192.168.100.0 network through 192.168.0.1
esxcfg-route -a 192.168.100.0/24 192.168.0.1
or
esxcfg-route -a 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

To set the VMkernel default gateway of 192.168.0.1
esxcfg-route 192.168.0.1
or
esxcfg-route -a default 192.168.0.1

To delete a 192.168.100.0 route from the VMkernel:
esxcfg-route -d 192.168.100.0/24 192.168.0.1

To view the IPv4 ARP table:
esxcfg-route -n

To add a route to 2001:10:20:253::/64 network through 2001:10:20:253::1
esxcfg-route -f V6 -a 2001:10:20:253::/64 2001:10:20:253::1

To set the VMkernel default gateway of 2001:10:20:253::1
esxcfg-route -f V6 -a default 2001:10:20:253::1

To delete a 2001:10:20:253:: route from the VMkernel:
esxcfg-route -f V6 -d 2001:10:20:253::/64 2001:10:20:253::1

To view the IPv6 Neighbor cache:
esxcfg-route -f V6 -n

~ #

Drafter421

ASKER

Thanks for the quick reply. That did it.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

No problems, always glad to help, where I can.