→ Applies to: SynetoOS 5.x
→ Applies to: VMware ESXi 6.5 and above

IMPORTANT
Step 2 and Step 5 are 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. Shutdown and unregister all VMs.

All VMs must be shutdown and unregistered except for the SynetoOS VM, which should remain powered on.

Via GUI

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

https://<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

Step 2. From Virtualization menu, click on Hosts

Step 3. 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 4. From System menu, click on Network connections

Step 5. Select Management Network and click on Edit

Step 6. 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 7. Manually mount datastores ("How to Manually Mount SynetoOS 5 Datastore on ESXi")

Via CLI

Step 1. Connect to SynetoOS appliance via SSH as admin

ssh admin@<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

Step 2. Become Super User

sudo su

Step 3. Change DNS server (replace <primary_dns> and <secondary_dns> with the correct DNS servers)

nmcli connection modify 'Management Network' ipv4.dns "<primary_dns> <secondary_dns>"

EXAMPLE

nmcli connection modify 'Management Network' ipv4.dns "8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"

Step 4. Change IPv4 address (replace <ip>/<submask> and <gateway_ip> with the correct information)

nmcli connection modify 'Management Network' ipv4.addresses <ip>/<submask> ipv4.gateway <gateway_ip> ipv4.method manual

EXAMPLE

nmcli connection modify 'Management Network' ipv4.addresses 192.168.1.100/24 ipv4.gateway 192.168.1.1 ipv4.method manual

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 10 (Optional).

Step 5. Manually mount datastores ("How to Manually Mount SynetoOS 5 Datastore on ESXi")