# How to setup your VMWare Fusion images to use static IP addresses

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We use [Railsmachine's](http://railsmachine.com) Moonshine to automate the configuration of our servers at Crush + Lovely.  When writing our deployment recipes, VMWare Fusion's ability to take snapshots and rollback to these snapshots is a huge timesaver because it takes just seconds to roll a server image to it's original state.

When you're just configuring a single server, having a static IP address for your server image isn't too important, but when you're configuring multi-server setups, it can be useful to duplicate a number of server images and give each a static IP address so you can consistently deploy to them.