Problem:
How do I manually change the management IP of a VMware ESXi 6.7 host?
Solution:
Open an SSH session to the existing management IP of the host and run the below (change 10.95.0.42 to your new IP):
esxcli network ip interface ipv4 set -i vmk0 -I 10.95.0.42 -N 255.255.255.0 -t static
You can set the default gateway of a VMKernel by running:
esxcfg-route 10.95.0.1
Try to then ping Google’s DNS servers using:
vmkping -I vmk0 8.8.8.8
