Change the network Setting of Live Site Recovery Appliance 9.0.2.8708 deployed by DHCP to "Enter IPv4 settings manually" will lost IPv4 gateway .

Products

• VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.x

Issue/Introduction

Unlike the SRM 8.x and Live Site Recovery 9.0 to 9.0.2.8602 , The Live Site Recovery Appliance 9.0.2.8708 accepted change the network setting  from "Obtain IPv4 settings automatically" to "Enter IPv4 settings manually"  in VAMI page .    Will not complained "Invalid network configuration. Cannot assign manual IP with DHCP assigned DNS . " like those older version . After SAVE the configuration change ,  log into the Appliance by ssh , will find the gateway was lost .

# ip route show
##.##.##.##.##/## deu dockero proto kernel scope link src ##.##.##.##.## 
##.##.##.##.##/## deu ethe proto kernel scope link src ##.##.##.##.##

But the gateway was keep in VAMI network setting page .

 

Environment

Live Site Recovery 9.0.2.8602

Resolution

Add the gateway manually

# ip route add default via##.##.##.##.## dev eth0