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Figure 5-18 Setting a static IP Address for ESXi host management interface
7. Test that the network interface settings are correctly configured to ensure that
you can connect to the ESXi host for further configuration using VMware VI
Client or VirtualCenter. By default, this test tries to ping your Default Gateway,
DNS server IP addresses and performs DNS resolution of your ESXi host
name. See Figure 5-19.
Figure 5-19 Testing of the management network settings
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