V2110 ESXi 6.5 migration issues (STATUS: DOWN)

[Ilya_Semenov]

Hello, team,

a customer has V2110 ESXi 6.5 installation. Week ago he transferred V2110's VM to another ESXi host, started the machine and there was no connectivity.

l2ports > show says:

Status: DOWN for all interfaces: Admin,esa0,esa1.

He tried to add 4th NIC from ESXi )))) No results, as we can understand. The he has removed the NIC.

So, are there any compatibility issues while transferring V2110's VM from one host to another? May be we should keep old MACs on NICs or something like this?

Please, help!

Thanks.

[Ronald_Dvorak]

Yupp, that's the way to do it - never had any troubles with that procedure.

[Robert_Zdzieblo]

Ilya,

As you mentioned, there could be problem with MACs - I had similar issues, when I was moving V2110 VMs between hosts; I couldn't change the MAC back to original on new host.

One solution could be to install new V2110 from scratch, restore the config and and then rehost license.

REGARDS

[Robert_Zdzieblo]

As long as you can access V2110 console, you can use 'export' command from CLI.
I don't know if you can mount USB flash disk on V2110 appliance to copy the .zip file, never tried this.

[Ilya_Semenov]

Hi, Robert, there is no old config, I believe. Could we somehow extract config from current V2110 installation without network connectivity?

Thanks.