Changing ESXI server ip address

[plexer]

I'm in the middle of a change of ip address range.

 

I have 1 esxi 3.5 server and the datastores for it are a dfs share from an iomega nas.

 

Now I assume it's as simple as shut down the guest vm's, change ip address of server, change ip address of nas.

 

Do I need to delete the datastore from within the management app and re-add it after I have changed ip's?

 

Ben

[teejay]

Yep, that's about right. I would do a backup copy of the VM's before you do this though, it's one of those tasks where you should be very careful!

[plexer]

Well because it was an nfs share from the iomega once it was deleted from esxi the files were still available.

 

Then it was a simple as changing the ip's on both devices and re-adding the nfs mount as a datastore and then re-adding the vm's to the inventory after that they powered on fine.

 

For future reference nfs shares on the iomega must be prefixed with nfs/

 

Ben