# Give PMM an IP address running on ESX

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/give-pmm-an-ip-address-running-on-esx/5732>\
**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/give-pmm-an-ip-address-running-on-esx/5732 "2017-07-13T08:12:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![dazzla76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dazzla76](https://forums.percona.com/u/dazzla76)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/give-pmm-an-ip-address-running-on-esx/5732/1 "2017-07-13T08:12:03Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to setup PMM (1.1.5) as a virtual appliance running on VMware ESX.

I need to assign the machine a static IP address but as far as i can see ESX doesn’t give the option of assigning the IP address.

Some appliances take you through a wizard, others just get you to log in using the console and bring up a network adapter manually.

I understand you can manage the networking of the applicance externally when using VMWare workstation or virtualbox but this isn’t the case with ESX.

Is there a default password for the root account on the box I could use? or is there another way of assigning a static IP address.

Thanks in advance

Darren

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**Author:** ![Mykola](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mykola/32/30_2.png) [@Mykola](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mykola)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/give-pmm-an-ip-address-running-on-esx/5732/2 "2017-07-13T10:15:26Z")

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Hi Darren,

We don’t have any default user/password due to security reasons, but CentOS 7 has a workaround: [LIST=1]  
[_]When booting into Grub, press e to modify boot parameter  
[_]replace quiet by systemd.debug-shell in the linux16 line  
[_]press Ctrl+x  
[_]wait for three minutes  
[\*]press Ctrl+Alt+F9  
[/LIST] anyway, may be situation can be improved, I created the ticket [url][[PMM-1211] static IP configuration for OVA image - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-1211%5B/url%5D) feel tree to add any comments to it.

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**Author:** ![dazzla76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dazzla76](https://forums.percona.com/u/dazzla76)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/give-pmm-an-ip-address-running-on-esx/5732/3 "2017-07-19T06:39:39Z")

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Thank you, i’ll give this a go

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**Author:** ![dazzla76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dazzla76](https://forums.percona.com/u/dazzla76)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/give-pmm-an-ip-address-running-on-esx/5732/4 "2017-07-19T10:26:25Z")

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That worked, thank you very much