Following Scenario: A additional VMkernel port is required to communicate via L3 to a backup device. My vmk adapter 10.10.88.10 needs to talk to the backup device 10.10.22.100 via 10.10.88.1  as gateway.

 As our management vmk is on a different network we need to create a new tcp/ip stack for this communication. This can be done via esxcli:

 esxcli network ip netstack add -N "BRS"

Now we can see the new stack created and we can create a vmk for it.




Now as final step we need to add a manual route, again via esxcli:

esxcli network ip route ipv4 add --gateway 10.10.88.1 --network 10.10.22.0/24