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Chapter 5. Installation
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5. Under Network Adapters, Figure 5-17, you can select which vmnic to assign
to the ESXi host management interface for fault-tolerance and management
network traffic load-balancing.
Selecting VLAN (optional) allows you to set a VLAN ID (if your network
policy uses VLANs for network isolation or segregation) for this ESXi host
management interface.
Figure 5-17 Options available under Configure Management Network
6. Select IP Configuration and then set the IP Address to match your
management network policies (static IP or DHCP). See Figure 5-18 on
page 272. Make sure to register the host name in your DNS server (or
servers), and set DNS server IP addresses and DNS suffixes for the ESXi
host, especially if you plan to use management tools like VMware
VirtualCenter which relies heavily on DNS name resolution.
IP Configuration, Figure 5-18 on page 272, allows you to set Use dynamic IP
address and network configuration (ESXi requests a DHCP lease) or Set
static IP addresses and network configuration . Note that if ESXi cannot
find a DHCP server, it defaults to the 169.254.0.1/255.255.0.0 IP address and
Class B netmask.