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2 On the vSphere Web Client Home page, click System .
3 Under System Conguration, click Nodes.
4 Under Nodes, select a node and click the Manage tab.
5 Under Common, select Access and click Edit.
6 Select how you can access the vCenter Server Appliance.
Option Description
Enable local login
Enables local login to the vCenter Server Appliance console.
Enable SSH login
Enables SSH access to the vCenter Server Appliance.
Enable Bash shell access
Enables Bash shell access to the vCenter Server Appliance for the number
of minutes that you enter.
This option is available only when the user name you use to log in to the
vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server Appliance is a member of
the SystemConguration.BashShellAdministrators group.
7 Click OK to save the seings.
Edit the DNS and IP Address Settings of the vCenter Server Appliance
After you deploy the vCenter Server Appliance, you can edit the DNS seings and specify which DNS
server to use. You can also edit the IP address seings of the vCenter Server Appliance, specify whether to
use IPv4 and IPv6 or only IPv6, and how the appliance obtains the IP address.
You can edit these seings by using the vSphere Web Client.
Prerequisites
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To change the IP address of the appliance, verify that the system name of the appliance is an FQDN. If,
during the deployment of the appliance, you set an IP address as a system name, you cannot change the
IP address after the deployment, because the system name is used as a primary network identier.
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Verify that the user name you use to log in to the vCenter Server instance in the
vCenter Server Appliance is a member of the SystemConguration.Administrators group in vCenter
Single Sign-On.
Procedure
1 Use the vSphere Web Client to log in as administrator@your_domain_name to the vCenter Server instance
in the vCenter Server Appliance.
The address is of the type hp://appliance-IP-address-or-FQDN/vsphere-client.
2 On the vSphere Web Client Home page, click System .
3 Under System Conguration, click Nodes.
4 Under Nodes, select a node and click the Manage tab.
5 Under Common , select Networking, and click Edit.
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