Monday, June 22, 2015

Bringing UP Virtual Spirent ports

Power off an existing Spirent VM that you would like to clone.
 
Go to the Configuration tab of the ESXi Server and click Storage in the Hardware section
 
Right-click on the datastore listed and select Browse Datastore
 
Add a new folder and copy the below files from existing spirent VM's folder to the new one
 
   
Add as many Physical NICs required as per your requirement and associate each NIC to a seperate vSwitch.
 
Associate the VM NIcs to the appropriate vswitch
 
Power ON the VM. => Open the VM console and wait for login screen.
 
Login using username = admin
pwd: spt_admin
 
Type "help" to view the list of available commands.
 
For example, configure the management ip address for the VM using "ipaddress" command
 
Finally execute the command "activate" and reboot the VM for the settings to take effect.
 
Right-click on the *.vmx file, and select Add to Inventory ==> Step through the wizard

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