6.5.1

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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 main page, hover over the Home icon, click Home, and select System

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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 edit the IP address seings of the vCenter Server Appliance. You can also 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

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 identier.

Verify that the user who logs 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.