Not able to access GUI and SSH to F5 VM

• Make sure you can ping the management address from the virtual machine itself (using the vmware console)
• Run "tcpdump -n -i eth0" (eth0=management port) on the BigIP, and see whether it can see any arp or icmp packets from your host when you try to ping it form the host.

Which mode is selected for vmnet1 and vmnet8 ? Try using 'host-only'. Add the static IPs. Disable the DHCP from Vmware preferences.

Hi Ian,

    I did tcpdump on my Primary console while i was doing ping from secondary. The output that I got is attached below. My primary mgmt ip is 172.16.1.100 and secondary mgmt ip address is 172.16.1.200. I can ping from console to the mgmt IP. 

    From the output it seems like both the mgmt ip are sending packets to each other. Also I ran the following command (tmsh list net arp all) to see the list of arp entries and I can see only HA VLAN entry in it which is 112.112.112.2.

Amanpreet, I am using host only mode for both devices. DHCP is disabled and I have configured static IP addresses.

Primary:

Mgmt: 172.16.1.100 255.255.255.0 GW : 172.16.1.1

Secondary:

Mgmt: 172.16.1.200 255.255.255.0 GW : 172.16.1.1

I saw the following screen shot when i did the ping from secondary VM to primary VM

https://devcentral.f5.com/Portals/0/Users/235/75/247275/Snapshot.png

When i did the ping from host to VE i get request time out:

User$ ping 172.16.1.200 PING 172.16.1.200 (172.16.1.200): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 Request timeout for icmp_seq 3 Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

and from VE to host:

I got %100 packet loss