Coyote Point Systems Equalizer GX Series, Administration Manual

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Equalizer OnDemand
Adding Ports on VM Workstation
When adding an interface using VM Workstation (a.k.a. VM Player), you are not given the option
to choose the type of network adapter added. as a result, you must edit the "vmx" file for the
Virtual Machine manually and restart the Virtual Machine to see the new interface in the Equalizer
OnDemand CLI and GUI.
1. Add an interface to the Equalizer Virtual Machine using the standard VM Workstation GUI
controls.
2. Power off the Virtual Machine.
3. Find and edit the " .vmx " file for the Virtual Machine. Assuming that you have an image
shipped with 2 interfaces and you are adding a third, you will find lines like this towards the
end of the "
.vmx " file:
4. Each interface has a set of properties that begin with "
ethernet N .
" where ‘
N
’ is the inter-
face number (this number indicates the order in which the interfaces were added to the
VM). The first two interfaces have a line (highlighted in green) that indicates the network
interface device type. The text highlighted in yellow is what VMware added to the file for the
third interface. Note that there is no
virtualDev
line in this set of properties that indicates
the interface type. This line needs to be added for the interface to work on Equalizer. The
text below shows what the "
ethernet2.
" set of properties should look like after editing:
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:bc:74:82"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.vnet = "vmnet2"
ethernet0.bsdName = "en0"
ethernet0.displayName = "Ethernet"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.virtualDev="e1000"
ethernet1.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet1.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:bc:74:8c"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "35"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"
ethernet1.vnet = "vmnet3"
ethernet1.bsdName = "en1"
ethernet1.displayName = "Ethernet2"
ethernet2.present = "TRUE"
ethernet2.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet2.addressType = "generated"
ethernet2.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:bc:74:96"
ethernet2.pciSlotNumber = "37"
ethernet2.generatedAddressOffset = "20"
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