Load Balancing Policy on 1Gb NICs
I'm using 6x 1Gb NICs on blade servers. I have 2 onboard NICs and 4 NICs provided by a single Mezzanine card. I'm choosing a load balancing policy. Given the layout below, is there any reason to use...
View ArticleBest Design for 6 x 1Gb virtual NICs and 3 Port Groups
I need to create a design that accomodates 3 port groups with traffic on 6 NICs. These are half-height blades with 2 NICs on board and 4 NICs on a mezzanine card. Here are the traffic types I need to...
View ArticleBest Design for 8 x 1Gb NICs with 4 Port Groups
I am using blade servers with the following configuration: 4 on-board NICs4 NICs on a single Mezzanine card. On some blades, I need to split these traffic types among them:Production TrafficBackup...
View ArticleBest Design for 8 x 1 Gb NICs with 3 Port Groups
I am using blade servers with the following configuration: 4 on-board NICs4 NICs on a single Mezzanine card. On some blades, I need to split these 3 traffic types among them:Production TrafficvMotion...
View ArticleCan't add host to more vDS
Hi, I have a problem adding host to more vDS. Because of network security, firewall and DMZ each of our networks should be on separate vDS. Host was successfully added to Management vDS and to 7...
View ArticleVM internal connection using only VNICS
We have around four production machines(physical) that are on a specific sub-net defined with a static IP address(private). They all communicate with each other to process data. Though its possible,...
View ArticleVMWARE Cluster with hosts/VMs on different networks
Hello, I am pretty new to the vmware world and I have a basic question about VM clusters. We have two servers running couple of VMs on one network (eg: 10.10.10.0/24) and we are planning on adding two...
View ArticleEnabling/Configuring IPv6
I have a basic configuration with a server runningWindows 2008 R2 on a Dell R610 system configured as both a DHCPv4 and v6 server. I have a Lenovo box installed with Windows 7 (x86). The Windows 7...
View Articleinternal only portGroup on vDS
Hello, is it possible to create on vDS (vSphere 5.0, Enterprise Plus) PortGroup for internal VMs only. We need to setup two VMs: APPS and DB. APPS VM should have access to DMZ, internal campus network...
View ArticleMonitor port bandwidth usage vcenter distributed switch
Hello, i would like to minitor the vcenter distributed switch ports somebody can give me some tricks ?what i need is just check the ports by VM and collect the bandwidth usage, i'm looking for a...
View ArticleNexus 1000v VSM to VEM communication via vSwitch
Hello, we want to configure, the data traffic of vsm control and vsm packet over the vswitch. Are they any HowTO's or documentation Availaible?? Thanks Stavros
View ArticleBest practice for hosting multiple vlan in a esxi host
Hello, I plan to host multiple vlan in a esxi host. Should I create a vSwitch for every vlan, each vSwitch only contains a port group for that VLAN, or create a single big vSwitch and connect multiple...
View ArticleUnable to add host to vDS
I noticed that one of my hosts was out of sync with a VDS. Running the 'Rectify vSphere Distributed Switch on Host' did nothing so I attempted to remove/add the host to the switch. The remove worked,...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Disconnected Host
Hello Does anyone have any previous instances of a host routinely disconnecting in vSphere . The host itself is still up and can be accessed directly, however under the vCenter server that the hosts...
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Multiple VLANs Spanning a Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switch - VST/Trunking?
Hi, I'm doing a cabinet move of my VMware infrastructure and I can't have any downtime so the aim is to move a host to the new cabinet and vMotion everything over. The original cabinet has a few hosts...
View Articlevmotion fails on shared 10Gb links even if physical adapter shares in network...
I have vm data and vmotion sharing 2x10GB linksthe vmdata uses Uplink5 & 6 in active/active mode, load balancing based on physical nic load.the vmotion-1 vmk uses uplink5 in active and uplink6 in...
View ArticleServer mirroring and disaster recovery using vmware
Greetings:I currently have 11 Physical servers that hosts 23 Virtual servers. We are using Hypervisor but planning to move away to Vmware to achieve the following - (1) Server mirroring - Setup a...
View ArticlePromiscuous mode - Nexus 1000V
Hey guys, I'm currently running an appliance with some connectivity issues. By issues, I mean, some interfaces cannot receive traffic. This appears well documented...
View Articlemigrate VDS between vcenter servers
I have a multipart question. I have 2 vcenter servers (one in link mode). I'm trying to basically migrate a vds switch setup on 3 hosts from one vcenter server to another while the virtual machines...
View ArticleTrying to understand how a network loop occurred..
I'm sure I won't be providing nearly enough information, but hopefully can fill in the blanks where needed. Had an issue in our ESXi 5.1 environment a couple days ago where our Cisco Nexus switches...
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