Failover Order actual used NIC
Hi, Is there any way of knowing through web client or windows client on which nic the packets are forwarded in case of using 2 nics with explicit failover order and failback set to NO. It seems that...
View ArticleThe upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs:...
When trying to upgrade a host from 5.0.0 1311175 to 5.1U1 1065491 I get this error and cannot find a way around it: The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting...
View ArticleOne-host site and distributed Switches
A number of geographical sites are under one vCenter Server. Each of them have their own distributed switches, which connect to vCenter over the WAN. This works fine. However in one site there is...
View ArticleWAN Emulation at Distributed Switch
Hi, I have a setup (Lab Environment) where i have 8 ESXi hosts on a VSphere Stretched Cluster . 4 Hosts - Site14 Hosts - Site 2 1 Port - vmknic5 from each of these 8 ESXi hosts form a VDS Switch 1 1...
View ArticleVM port state shows blocked
Hi I have host connected with nexus 1000v switch .Its newly configured hosts ,when i migrate VM to this host i am not able ping host via IP or host name. when i checked networking vLan port status...
View ArticleHow many VTEP vmknic Possible in Vmware Esxi 5.5?
Hi All, I am working on VXLAN in ESXI 5.5. I have a basic question about VTEP vmknic ,In Vxlan Esxi config,How many VTEP vmknic possible in Esxi 5.5? If only one VTEP vmknic is possible meants , Please...
View ArticleCannot remove unused Uplink Ports on Distributed Swtich vSphere 5.1
I have recently removed a host with 6 Nics from a Distributed Switch . The remaining hosts only have 2 Nics so I would like to remove the unused uplink ports on the vDS. I have tried this by dialling...
View ArticleCreating distributed vswitch to replace standard vswitch - do not see all VMs...
I am confused. I use ESXi 5.1U1. I have 6 hosts in a cluster; all are using standard vswitches for their VM networking (with separate vswitches and NICs for service console and vmotion). So I want to...
View ArticleWhen 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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VM Host in Cluster Went into a Disconnected State
Hi Guys Need some help here as the Company now expects me to do a RCA (Root Cause Analysis) as to why one of our VM Hosts went into a disconnected state. I am no Fundy when it comes to analyzing logs,...
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Load balancing configuration mismatch issue
Hi All, After reading some threads on Communities I've started to feel inspired to simply...ask for advice when I'm not able to find solution to the matter on my own Excuse if I'm duplicating issue - I...
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2510G-48p failover in VMware/Watchguard-cluster
Hi, Our current setup is two WG XTM 535 in a firecluster (Active/Passive) with a 2-port Link-aggregation from each to one 2510G-48p.The aggregation is configured as static (Trunk).Trunks contains 9...
View ArticlePort Mirroring and Promiscuous mode in VCDNI backed port groups
Anybody has experience in using port mirroring and promiscuous mode in vSphere Distributed Switch when some port groups are created by vCloud?I have a vCloud Director environment. Apparently there are...
View ArticleVirtual NICs: Only 1 Gbit or better more?
Hi ! We have virtualized most of our physical servers this year.All in all we have around 40 virtual servers now. Our clients are all connected with simple 1 Gbit NICs.Before most of our servers were...
View ArticleVMs on DVS not able to communicate?
Hello people. :-) We've had problems with VMs on the Nexus 1000v not being able to communicate at times, when we move them to the standard switch, the problem disappears. We've stumbled upon some lines...
View ArticleHybrid (standard switches and vDS) versus all port groups on vDS?
We are currently running vSphere 5.1 (vCenter and Hosts). Our vCenter in on a physical server. We need to migrate from host based vSwitches to vDVS for our ESXi hosts on our10GB network. Is it...
View ArticleUnable to send/receive at full line rate with Intel dual ports 10 GIG 82599...
I am investigating whether or not it's feasible to send/receive at 20 gbps throughput with an Intel 82599 dual-port card inside a guest VM on ESXi. I'm using ntop's PF_RING DNA to send and receive...
View ArticleNetworking in Vcenter
Hello VMware Experts - I'm trying to setup a private wireless network for Apple devices so they can use internal LAN resources including some HTTPS secured sites. Everything works aside from access to...
View ArticleHaving problem enabling SR-IOV in ESXi 5.5 with Intel 82599EB 10-GIG card on...
I'm having problem enabling SR-IOV in ESXi 5.5 on my Dell T110 II server. I enabled SR-IOV BIOS and all other virtualization related options. I have also set the max_vfs in the ixgbe driver. I tried...
View ArticleHow to create two different IP subnets using single ESXi 5.5 host
I would like to create two different IP subnets like Subnet-A: 192.168.1.x ( home broadband internet subnet) and Subnet-B:192.168.2.x ( Test subnet ). I want to place few VM's in Subnet-A and few in...
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