VCF 9.1 - Protection and Recovery no network

This morning I was deploying the new Protection and Recovery appliance for a customer. I decided to follow the vCenter deployment flow, filled in all the details in the ovf deployment wizard and waited for the deployment to complete. To my surprise, the appliance (in both datacenters) never came online with the details I had configured. They both came online with a link-local IPv6 address, no IPv4 address and no configured hostname or passwords that worked. ...

22 September, 2026 · 2 min · Maarten Van Driessen