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Hosts Network issue with vDS that has no adapters
All, I have a home lab that I'm trying to setup and it seems to be giving me a little issues with the vDS and the two Hosts I have in the cluster. I have vCenter 5.0 with two ESXi hosts that has four...
View Article4 x 10GB NIC's - Best Practices
Hi Group, We are upgrading to hosts with 4 x 10gbe interfaces. I have not specifically seen it stated but would it best to create 2 nics for iscsi and 2 for vmotion/management/network or combine all...
View ArticleCabling UCS Fabric Extender for ESXi
Scenario: UCS Fabric extender to a Nexus 7000 physical switch. Inside VMware, virtual distributed switch is used. Should the links between UCS and Nexus 7000 ALL be active? If I have 4 uplinks from...
View ArticleHypervizor on DVS?
I have been running hybrid solution with VSS(management) and DVS everything else. I then started converting management over to DVS and removing all VSS. Then I ran into a situation where I had to...
View ArticleNetwork interface 'Network adapter 1' uses network 'Distributed Virtual...
Hello everyone,I've tried to migrate a VM from one cluster to another cluster which is connecting to two different dvSwitch, I got an error when I chose migrate to which host.Does anyone know about...
View ArticleNetwork Performance Suse 11 SP3
hi guys My customer complained about network performance he did some testing. He connected a laptop to the physical switch where my virtual infrastructure is connected and run iperf he got almost...
View Articleesxtop and client performance chart discrepancy for receive packets dropped
I am having difficulty analyzing the various data I receive at the host level, versus within the vSphere client. I need this to determine if a change I made to a VM is fixing a specific problem, as...
View Articleloss of connetivity ??
hello friends I 've lost conecitivity to my esx (3.5) service console and my esx server become unmanageble from Vcenter(2.5) there are total four uplink on Esx server, 2 uplinks are assigned to...
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Equallogic SAN out of resources for iscsi
I just started setting up our 4 hosts for iscsi multipathing a couple of days ago. We have 3 nics on each host for iscsi. First 2 hosts did great. Today I was working on the 3rd host and did the hba...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 update 1 can ping from Windows but not from Ubuntu
I have (2) Cisco UCS c220 servers running ESXi 5.1 update 1. Both are cabled to (2) Cisco 3750 switches in an ether-channel port group. I am currently seeing some weird behavior. I can ping the ESXi...
View ArticleReplaced 1000v with vDS.. Now need confirmation if the VEM has been uninstalled?
I was trying to remove a VEM from one of the ESXi 4.1 host using the following command: esxcli software vib remove -n cisco-vem-v140-esx --maintenance-mode but kept getting the following error:...
View ArticlevSphere Distributed Switch - Can it Span Subnets
I have a situation where I have two separate CISCO 4506 switches that are assigned separate subnets. One switch is 8.62.120.0 and the other is 8.62.121.0. My esxi servers do not have trunks into both...
View ArticleBudgeting for 10gbps for 2014
We currently have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vSphere. For our 2014 budget we are going to add 2 more servers. We are also going to upgrade everything to ESXi 5.5 once I get a new server at our DR...
View ArticleHow to set the MTU size for a physical function on a Intel X520
Hello, I have ESX 5.1 configured for SR-IOV on a Intel X520 and would like to configure the MTU setting to 9000 to match the virtual functions MTU value of 9000.When the device is a vSwitch, setting...
View ArticleNSX Discussion Forum?
Is this where NSX is going to be discussed or will another forum be created?
View ArticleCisco VSM as VMware VM or Cisco Appliance VM
We are considering using the Cisco 1000v in our environment and considering whether to use the Cisco Services Appliance 1110-X or run it on ESXi as VMs. anyone have any advise? thanks gd
View ArticleBest Practice for Creating NIOC shares
What is the best strategy for keeping a consistent, intuitive, allocation of NIOC shares in an enviornment with many different virtual distributed switches?For example, I have one distributed virtual...
View Articlevswitch - latency
Hi,Did Anyone have problems withhigh latencyon vDS? How does it resolve? Regards,J
View ArticleVMware (standard) vSwitch and double tagging (QinQ)
I'm experiencing an issue while trying to pass double tagged through a standard vSwitch.A physical interface on the VMWare host machine is receiving double tagged traffic - the outer tag differentiates...
View ArticlevDS Upgrade non-disrputive for vmnetwork traffic?
Hi guys, i'd like to upgrade two vDS the next few days. The first one from 4.1 to 5.0 and the second one from 5.0 to 5.1.Is this task completely non-disruptive for the residing VMs on that...
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