Had to look up how to change the Service Console IP via command line today… here is a good article:
“Once in the service console runt the command “esxcfg-vswif -d vswif0″. This command deletes the existing vswif0. Don’t worry if you get a message about nothing to flush. Then you need to run the command to change the ip address, subnet mask and broadcast address. They are also specified in that order when the command is given. An example command is below.
“esxcfg-vswif -a vswif0 -p Service\ Console -i 10.1.1.1 -n 255.255.255.0 -b 10.1.1.255″
In this command the -a switch is to add a vswif, the \ in the Service\ Console is deliberate, the -i is the ip address, the -n is the netmask and the -b is the broadcast address.
You now need to change your default gateway, you can do this by editing the network file located at /etc/sysconfig/network. To do this at the command prompt, follow the steps below.
“cd /etc/sysconfig”
“vi network”
Then while in vi, go to the location of the default gateway using the arrow keys.
Hit “i” which will perform an insert and change the default gateway to your liking.
Hit the escape key twice to exit insert mode.
type “:wq!” to write (i.e save) and quit.
At this point you can run some commands to restart the vmware management, but I prefer to restart the server and will recommend you do that.”
