vSphere and iSCSI QNAP connections error
Hi all,I've a big problem with my vSphere free license and ISCSI connection: vSphere A --> iSCSI connection to QNAP (network card 3) with cross-cable and IP 169.254.100.103vSphere B --> iSCSI...
View ArticleDropped packets
Hi All, We recently found the dropped packets in one of the portgroup in the dvs. Find the details below : ~ # esxcli network vm listWorld ID Name Num Ports Networks-------- ------------...
View ArticleVLAN
Hi, first of all, sorry is this isn't the correct forum. In my office there are some VLAN (one VLAN for each floor). My VmWare hosts are in one of them and all my VM have IP's that are inside of one...
View ArticleWhat VMware software components do I need to have a HA cluster - Linux Servers
Hello,I have two physical linux servers that I would like to virtualize and then put into a high availability cluster. One is a zimbra mail server with about 90 users and the other one is a samba...
View Articlevcenter reboot / attach to new host when using vDS
This weekend we migrated to vDS. Two vDS actually, one is dv-10gbe1 and one is dv-1gbeVMLan. The 10gbe is just storage and vmotion traffic off their own 10gb nic and a pair of Brocade switches. We...
View ArticleChanging VMnic from E1000 to VMXNET3
Hi All, We have a requirement, where we have to change the VMnic from E1000 to VMXNET3. But, the customer VM has their application binded to the Mac. Can we remove the E1000 and add new nic(VMXNET3)...
View ArticleBelly flop in the IP Pool
Hey Folks,I'm looking for a little help in implementing a way to make IP management a little easier for a fairly large VM deployment. I will be deploying approximately 750 VM's over the next few months...
View ArticleInternet
I have a question about VMware networking. I have a router that route a 172.100.1.0 to 192.168.3.1 network. My ESXi 5.5 host have the IP 192.168.3.2. In de ESXi CLI can I ping 8.8.8.8, but in a VM I...
View ArticleVmotion Teaming Best Practice
Dear team, I have created one new vSwitch1 and added two physical nic on vSwitch1. then I have created two vmknic1 and vmknic2 and enabled vMotion on the vSwitch1. Just want to confirm , below nic...
View Articlevmware switch Vlan configuration
It's possible to have a vmware switch configuration that looks like interface GigabitEthernet0/4description Compute Node 1 eth1switchport trunk native vlan 100switchport trunk encapsulation...
View ArticleLoss of connectivity
I am working on a new site and the client is ahving network connectivity issues. They are on ESXi 5.0 when i run cat vmkernel.log | grep 00:50:56:86:02:ed i get the following.. excessive port...
View ArticleNetwork issues with VMWare environment
I am seeing some weird networking issues within our VMware environment. WE currently have 3 ESX hosts running Vsphere 5.1 For example. I have 2 servers that are on the same ESX host and on the same...
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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...
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Network speed wrong
Hi all,I've two ESX, HOST A - HOST B, whit gigabit network card on gigabit infrastructure.The network cards of both hosts are recognized in gigabit, but the speed of data transfer on HOST B is...
View ArticlePing lost Management IP - Driver for Emulex
hi guys I have a vDS using 4 vmnics as you can see below vmnic2 0000:16:00.04 elxnet Up 1000Mbps Full 34:40:b5:e3:c8:fa 1500 Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3)vmnic3...
View ArticleUsing vMotion with vDS
I am attempting to setup a vDS; first time doing so. I normally just use vSS but I have the opportunity to "play" with vDS with a new cluster I am building. One concern that i have and have not been...
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Configure an interconnected (SQL data-) network between two hosts
Hello, I have a dual-host environment which will run three web-servers and one SQL-server and I want a dedicated virtual network for the SQL traffic (meaning the virtual machines will have two network...
View Articleopenssl version in Cisco nexus 1000V
Hello, I am running VMware 1000V switch in vCenter 5.1 with latest release of 1000v. the current version installed is 4.2(1).SV2(2.1a). Does anyone know what version of openssl is installed? is there...
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vMotion not working when in same switch as Management
Ok, I am reconfiguring my networking across my 3 hosts. I did have vMotion (using VLAN50) in a dedicated vSwitch using uplink vmnic0. vMotion between hosts worked fine. It looked like this... I want...
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