VMware vMA Tweak – vmware-vima-netconf.pl

Posted on February 5, 2010 by PiroNet

This post is the first of a series about VMware vMA 4.0.

Today, here is a little trick for lazy admins (like me :)) to reconfigure eth0 of your vMA appliance without going through some time-consuming manipulations . So logon preferably at the console with the vi-admin account and run the following command: sudo /opt/vmware/vima/bin/vmware-vima-netconf.pl

You will have noticed that this is the same script that is used when you booted up for the first time your vMA appliance. This script will help you configure the network in quicker way as you would do with a regular Linux server.

For the purist, still you can edit files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and also edit /etc/sysconfig/network file, then restart eth0, etc, etc…

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Didier Pironet is an independent blogger and freelancer with +15 years of IT industry experience. Didier is also a former VMware inc. employee where he specialised in Datacenter and Cloud Infrastructure products as well as Infrastructure, Operations and IT Business Management products. Didier is passionate about technologies and he is found to be a creative and a visionary thinker, expressing with passion and excitement, hopefully inspiring and enrolling people to innovation and change.
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2 Responses to VMware vMA Tweak – vmware-vima-netconf.pl

  1. hypervizor says:
    February 5, 2010 at 15:27

    I love being laaaaaazy 🙂
    Nice catch 😉

    Reply
  2. nipper says:
    February 6, 2011 at 21:16

    I love it – lazy admins FTW!
    Thank you!

    Reply

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