Nexus 1000v license usage?
Hi people I need to know which licenses are in use on a specific ESXi host?I haven't been able to find a command that shows me that. We're moving our VMs to a new datacenter with new ESXi hosts, so...
View ArticleNexus 1000v and vMotion/VM traffic?
Hi there We're moving our VM production servers to a completely new datacenter.There's a wish to use the 2x 10Gig ports on each ESX hosts for the Nexus 1000v uplinks (etherchannel) for both vMotion...
View Articlewhat is the use of peak bandwidth and burst size in traffic shaping
what is the use of average bandwidth ,peak bandwidth and burst size in traffic shaping . regardsvikrant
View ArticlevDS in Active/Active or Active/Passive ends up dropping connections to ESXi...
Hello, Long story short - when I have dvuplinks in Active/Active or Active/Passive, I get connection drops from the hosts connected to the switch. When only one dvuplink is used, all is right with the...
View ArticleVMDirectPath I/O
I'm trying to capture packets by using VMDirectPath I/O. To do this, I'm planning to use VMDirectPath I/O.I'm goint to use VMware vSphere 5.1.Is it possible to do it?I want to monitor packet in ESX#2...
View ArticleNIOC and settings
Good Morning, I am working with NIOC and wanting to correctly set shares. I currently using the default NIOC resource pools. Of those pools I am only using:FT 10 Management 30Virtual Machine...
View Articlenetwork "dvswitch" not accessable on shared cluster and dvSwitch
Hello! A have a cluster of 6 hosts running ESXi 5.5, v 1331820. All are joined to a v5.5 dvSwitch named "dvSwitch-Nexus" When I attempt to vMotion a VM from one host to another, I recieve the message...
View ArticleSR-IOV support from esxtop ?
This site: http://blog.scottlowe.org/tag/esxi/ says that esxtop does not support SR-IOV cards. I have certainly found that to be the case Are there any future plans to support SR-IOV card network...
View ArticleVM network issue - migrated from 4.1 vswitch to 5.5 VDS
Hi, I am facing VM network issue - migrated from 4.1 vswitch to 5.5 VDS I suspect it has something to do with 1. H/w version2. Need to change the driver from e1000 to VNX3 Any other ideas ? Thanks
View ArticleRestrict a single port group from being added to VMs with role
Hello! We have two Vmware 5.1 (soon to be 5.5) ESXi clusters with 10 hosts total. We're setting up some new VMs for the finance department where they want to ensure that level-1 tech support can't...
View ArticleESXi hosts became isolated until the redundant network is unplugged
Hello all, Here is the scenario:Two hosts (ESXi 5.0 build 623860), not clustered (no HA) with VMs stored in local datastores.Each host connected among two different switches using two physical...
View Articlevswitch - dedicated management and virtual machine vswitches?
What are the benefits of using a separate (standard or DVS) vswitch for management/vmotion and virtual machines- is the only advantage the idea that you can fully isolate this "management" traffic on...
View Articlevmotion between clusters, with vmotion in a DVS switch - GUIDs don't match?
Apparently each DVS has it's own guid - and when you try to vmotion across clusters when each cluster has it's own DVS - the vmotion fails because the DVS guids don't match? Is it possible to have a...
View ArticleNetflow V10 collector
Does anyone know of a netflow collector that is open-source and can receive v10 packets. I found a bunch that can receive v9 packets but no luck in finding v10. I know that in 5.5 I should be able to...
View ArticleVLAN ID Trunk
Dear All,i have ESXI5.1 with 1 NIC, however i want to create two VLAN's 20 and 10, and want them to be seperated for test purposes,i've created a Vlan Trunk 4095 and vSwitch for Vlans 10 and 20,the...
View ArticleTagging design question
I have got 2 ESX servers to setup with 4 port NICs each - so I would like to know the best way to load network traffic based on management, storage and VM network. Should I team 2 NICs for iscsi...
View ArticleMirror quality in VDS with ESX 5.1 (Entreprise+)
Hi everybody, I'm asking some questions about the quality and transparency of mirroring in VDS. To begin, the goal of this mirror is to make some performance measurement of the network and...
View ArticleX520-DA2 Compatibility Issue
I am having an issue with an X520-DA2 Intel NIC. It does not show up after installing vSphere 5.5. We have this card running in multiple servers and have never had an issue. It is on the compatibility...
View ArticleHow to get the physical Mac address from a VMware Virtual Machine?
Im inquiring about obtaining the physical mac address / api from the VMware virtual machine. it is a way to do it or any API from vmware?
View ArticleManagement network on DVS?
I currently have my management interfaces on DVS. I am considering moving them back to Standard switches just in the very off chance I have an issue with the dvs database, at least I can manage them...
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