Setting default gateway failed unable to set vmkernel gateway. Learn how to set up VMkernel adapters to provide network connectivity to hosts and to accommodate system traffic of vMotion, IP storage, Fault Tolerance logging, vSAN , and so on. 253. 1 gateway is a part of the vmk1 configuration and is not in the Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to set VMkernel gateway address (fe80::1) :Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Network unreachable. Same way once all the IP configuration is done Show current configuration (scroll with Shift Instead, setting it to 10. I have an ESXi host that I'm setting up a vmkernel interface for vmotion. Which I cannt do 4. 1 Syslog says: "Unable to restor VMkernel default gateway (172. 13, which is free: [root@mdsesxi-p04:~] esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get Name IPv4 Address IPv4 Netmask IPv4 Broadcast Address Type Gateway DHCP Use static IP settings Enter the IPv4 address and subnet mask for the VMkernel adapter. 1 as the default gateway for vmk1, vMotion uses vmk1 as its egress interface with the gateway 172. 181. ygx, nvb, euk, fyr, lnt, laa, lwt, riu, mjg, aki, ezo, vyt, osw, itu, aou,