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Frank_N
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Feb 01, 2016

Not able to access GUI and SSH to F5 VM

Hi, I am currently running VM 11.5.3 on a trial version. I configured the HA pair and everything worked fine I was able to access GUI and did the SSH. Now I am trying to run the same VMs with the...
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    Frank_N
    Feb 05, 2016

    Hi Ian, Don't know what happened but it started to work now. Yesterday when i did the ping from host to VE it was giving me request timed out and today i am able to ping and access the GUI as well. It might be some type of bug i don't know. But thanks for your support

     

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IanB
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Feb 02, 2016
  • Make sure you can ping the management address from the virtual machine itself (using the vmware console)
  • Run "tcpdump -n -i eth0" (eth0=management port) on the BigIP, and see whether it can see any arp or icmp packets from your host when you try to ping it form the host.