How to change IP address and netmask in SynetoOS 5

Written By Christian Castagna (Administrator)

Updated at June 13th, 2025

→ Applies to: SynetoOS 5.x

IMPORTANT
Step 2 and Step 5 is essential for the remaining steps to be successful. If these two steps are not correctly verified, the remaining steps should be aborted.

 

Step 1. Login to VMware ESXi GUI (replace <your_ip_address_or_hostname> with the correct ip/hostname)

https://<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

 

Step 2. Power off and unregister all VMs

 

Step 3. Login to SynetoOS GUI (replace <your_ip_address_or_hostname> with the correct ip/hostname)

https://<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

 

Step 4. From Virtualization menu, click on Hosts

 

Step 5. Check if the host is connected to VMware ESXi via the internal IP 172.16.254.1 ("How to verify ESXi hypervisor local IP address in SynetoOS 5")

IMPORTANT
Make sure that the system is connected to this IP address during the change.

If the system is not connected to this IP, the procedure will not complete successfully.

 

Step 6. From System menu, click on Network connections

 

Step 7. Select Management Network and click on Edit

 

Step 8. Change IPv4 address and click on Update

Wait for the operation to complete




After changing the IP address, open a new browser tab and access the SynetoOS 5 GUI using the new IP.

Wait 10 minutes for all datastores to be automatically re-mounted on VMware ESXi. If, after 10 minutes, the automatic re-mounting of the datastores has not completed successfully, proceed with manual mounting by following the instructions in Step 9 (Optional).

 

Step 9 (Optional). Manually mount datastores ("How to manually mount SynetoOS 5 datastore on ESXi")