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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
SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators group.
7 Click OK to save the settings.
Edit the DNS and IP Address Settings of the
vCenter Server Appliance
After you deploy the vCenter Server Appliance, you can edit the DNS settings and select which DNS
server to use. You can edit the IP address settings of the vCenter Server Appliance. You can also select
whether to use IPv4 and IPv6 or only IPv6, and how the appliance obtains the IP address.
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. The system name is always used as a primary network
identifier.
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Verify that the user who logs in to the vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server Appliance is a
member of the SystemConfiguration.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 http://appliance-IP-address-or-FQDN/vsphere-client.
2 On the vSphere Web Client main page, click Home, and select System Configuration.
3 Under System Configuration, click Nodes.
4 Under Nodes, select a node and click the Manage tab.
5 Select Networking, and click Edit.
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