Multi-home vCenter with multiple nic's shows hosts as not responding following a reboot.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Following reboot of a multi-home vCenter, configured with multiple nics and routes to different networks,
Hosts in certain networks will show as Not Responding in vCenter until a restart of the systemd-networkd service is preformed.

Cause

The configuration file's located at /etc/systemd/network example: 10-eth0.network Have particular case sensitivity for the Route parameter.

If this configuration file has for example [ROUTE] instead of [Route] it will cause this issue.

Resolution

Correct the case sensitivity from ROUTE to Route and restart the service.

Additional Information

• Persistent Static Routes on VCSA
• Network Configurations · VMware Photon OS 3.0 Documentation