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Switches - best bang for the buck?

We have 2 Dell 5424 switches on our vsphere 5.0 setup. They're limited to 9000 mtu for jumbo frames and I'd like to find a model that can handle up to 9216. The Dell 6xxx series starts at $1770. Can...

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"vmkping failed" status

When you use ping (vmkping) on ESX console, you may get message: *** vmkping failed! (status #) ***,where # can be 3, 5, 15.Do anybody know, what this number of status means? Any link to Vmware hidden...

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boot from lan -- no filename

Hello all. First post here. I have a running diskless boot environment using OBM diskless and currently using it in my internet cafe. This is to say, the clients are diskless booting on my server.  Now...

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If we got Nexus 1000V from VMWARE , can we add the N1K to our CCO ( Cisco...

Hi   If we got Nexus 1000V from VMWARE , can we add the N1K to our CCO ( Cisco Account ) to have direct support from Cisco  as sometimes it take some more time to get answer from VMWARE -> Cisco Thanks

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Adding a second vSwitch on an ESXi free host.

Hello, I have a host with a vSwitch currently configured to pass multiple VLANS to various VMs.   vSwitch0vmnic5vmnic4vmnic1vmnic0vmnic6 -- want to isolate this off I want to isolate vmnic6 to a...

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VC trying to connect to host through wrong vlan

Hello, I have a VC server with two network cards. they are teamed together by HP teaming network . one is configured for the 'production vlan 16', one is used for iSCSi traffic vlan182.All of my host...

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Guest VM on different subnet

Hi, first to say i am newbie in all this and i have one question. EXAMPLE:I have server where i installed ESXI, with IP 192.168.0.100now i created1 VM - 192.168.0.1012 VM - 192.168.0.1023 VM -...

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Distributed Switch

Hi Experts     I am new with Distributed switch configurationi would like to know best practices for configuring it apparently we are setup with 2 DRs Cluster 3hosts are part of one cluster Thank you

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How to establish connection between VMs on Workstation and VMs on ESXi

Hello All, I have a small test environment.There are some VMs which are running on vmware workstation 9.0.0 which is installed at one real machine with Windows XP.There is another real machine with...

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VMware network segregation

Hi We have a load of VM's that have multiple network cards each on it own VLAN. How can I restrict the traffic on the virtualisation layer to a single purpose. For example, I dont want to allow ssh or...

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simple question about networking best practice - traffic separation for storage

Excuse the newbie question... I am reading up on best practices for network separation for VMware.  I see that often things are set up like this (I got this from another post here that was deemed...

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"vSphere Distributed Switch teaming matched status" red alert flag help needed

Since migrating from standard switching to distributed switching, I've seen these alerts appear sporadically. They appear, and then they clear seconds later. They only mention the affected host, not...

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standard vSwitch: Linux guest OS bonding via separate vSwitches

Hello, i am experiencing issue while using two standard vSwitches for guest OS bonding.vSphere/ESX is 5.0 I am using a HP blade chassis with two IO modules, each has one uplink to external switch.ESX...

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Share Management network with other out-of-band traffic (iLO, etc.)?

Is it common or 'best practice' to put ESXi management network on the same subnet/VLAN as other out-of-band "management" traffic, such as iLO, Onboard Administraotr, Switch Management, etc? Or should...

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PVLAN security

Hi community,  we want to use the private VLAN-technology, but we have some doubts on the layer 3 security.  There are 3 hosts (1 promicious [P1]- later this should be a firewall, which limits traffic...

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Utilization estimates network and FCoE

We have a greenfield vSphere 5.1 U1 environment comprising of Hosts with 4 socket (8-core) processors and 384GB Memory. Network is composed of 4-10GbE CNA that will pass VM network and FCoE storage...

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When to use multiple vSphere Distributed Switches

I have a number of port groups that will reside on distributed switches.   I have a number of clusters.  Some clusters are dedicated to only containing certain kinds of VMs which are all on the same...

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guest systems show fibre 10g adapters as twisted pair

Hi,I have installed esxi 5.1 on a assembled intel 5500bc motherboard along with a dual port intel 10g fibre lan card.The has gone smooth on the vmware side, i do see that within vmware ethtool shows...

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Advice: migrate from standard vSwitch to dvSwitch using separate NICs

I've never used a dvswitch before, but I think I am at the point of needing one. Right now, I have a cluster with 6 hosts, all 5.1 (not U1). Each has just standard vswitches defined (one for...

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Nexus 1000v iscsi multipath not working for two hosts.

It seems only one host can connect to my iscsi storage when using iscsi port binding (multipath).  When I don't use port bindings, both hosts can see the storage.  ie right click iscsi initiator...

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