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  • 1.  Order of NICs/IPs and its VM DNS name in VCenter

    Posted Sep 27, 2020 03:55 PM

    Hi Experts!

    I'm not sure what determines which IP correspond to DNS name when i have more than one NIC on my VM, what is the order that vCenter displays and respond the IPs for each VM?

    Sorry for the confused constructed question, i hope you get my point.

    I just need to get available my VM DNS name on particular IP not random or last appeared or anything else.

    How to force vSphere to do that in my way?

    Many thanks for your help.



  • 2.  RE: Order of NICs/IPs and its VM DNS name in VCenter

    Posted Sep 27, 2020 04:09 PM

    That's nothing vSphere is involved in. It's basically either the VM (the guest OS) which dynamically registers its IP addresses in DNS, or a statich DNS entry in case the giest does not dynamically register its addresses.


    André



  • 3.  RE: Order of NICs/IPs and its VM DNS name in VCenter

    Posted Sep 27, 2020 04:43 PM

    Moderator: Thread moved to the Linux guest area, since this is nothing specific to vSphere.



  • 4.  RE: Order of NICs/IPs and its VM DNS name in VCenter

    Posted Jun 26, 2025 02:04 PM

    Hello,

    I know this is an old thread but just in case someone is still looking on how to workaround the issue, you can find the broadcom doc here https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/tools/11-2-0/vmware-tools-administration/configuring-vmware-tools-components/configure-network-interface-information.html

    You basically can exclude and/or make a specific network interface as primary and this will put it on top of the others in the listing

    Best regards,


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