How to manually add multiple NICs to the vROps 8.x appliance

Important note: This is officially NOT supported by vROps. I've had a specific one off use case in my lab. It is just a quick workaround and is not recommended in production environment as this solution is not supported by VMware.

 

This article explains how to add multiple network interfaces to a vROps 8.0 and 8.1 appliance. Recently we had a scenario where the vROps appliance needs access to different networks that are isolated/ not routed with the primary network management interface of vROps. In my case, the vROps instance needed access to 3 different networks.

Initially while installing the vROps there will be only one interface (10-eth0.network) and its the default interface for vROps appliance. 

For configuring additional interfaces follow the steps below:

• Add a network card and connect to the respective port group by editing VM settings
• Login to vROps with root creds
• cd /etc/systemd/network/
• Create an entry for the new interface 10-eth1.network (as it will not be present!)
• vi 10-eth1.network
• Provide all necessary IP details and save
  

• Restart network service systemctl restart systemd-networkd
• Verify /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net

• Similarly, follow the above steps if you require more interfaces 

Note: This solutions is NOT officially supported by vROps. It is not recommended in production environment.

Related post 

How to manually add multiple NICs to the vROps 7.x appliance

References

https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/html/3.0/photon_admin/managing-the-network-configuration.html

How to manually add multiple NICs to the vROps 7.x appliance

This article explains how to add multiple network interfaces to a vROps 7.0/ 7.5 appliance. Recently we had a scenario where the vROps appliance needs access to different networks which are isolated/ not routed with the primary network management interface of vROps. In my case the vROps instance needed access to 3 different networks.

Initially while installing the vROps there will be only one interface (eth0) and its the default interface for vROps appliance.  

For configuring additional interfaces follow the steps below:

• Add a network card and connect to the respective port group by editing VM settings
• Login to vROps with root creds
• cd /etc/sysconfig/network
• Create an entry for the new interface eth1 (as it will not be present!)
• vi ifcfg-eth1
• Provide all necessary IP details and save

• Reboot the appliance
• Verify details

• Similarly, follow the above steps if you require more interfaces 

Note: I am not sure whether this is officially supported by vROps, but it works! Haven't found any VMware documentations related to this.