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Dwimmerlaik_254
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Nov 30, 2011

Adding Additional NIC to LTM VE

I have an existing LTM VE 11.0.0 appliance deployed on ESXi 4.1.0. I have added an additional NIC to the VM; however, it is not appearing under Network -> Interfaces under the Web Administrative Conso...
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simon_hamilton-
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Nov 30, 2011
Sorry no such luck on the hot add. If you add interfaces as VMXNET3 they may show up on reboot, to be sure you have to delete /var/db/mcpdb.bin before the reboot.

 

Adding interfaces is not supported though, as they tend to get re-ordered by vSphere randomly, though in a lab you can figure things out OK, in production its much better to just run VLAN trunking with the original interfaces instead.