How to set up an opaque network
Hi, I am a software engineer working on vm backup application using vSphere APIs and trying to add support for backing up a virtual Ethernet card that connects to an opaque...
View ArticleDistributed Switch
Hi, We have DV Switch in an environment . In that , When a particular VM is migrated to a host, VM's network connection is disturbed. It lost the network connection.That particular VLAN might not...
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How best to achieve port group isolation?
Hi We've got a need to set up a number of port groups (4 at current count) which are unable to talk to each other, but due to pNIC limitations, they need to be all on the same vSwitch. The machines...
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Network topology
Hello everyone, i'm new at Vmware and i got some question.Got my ESXi set with 2 networks card.I'm a network guy i would like to use Vmware vsphere to try some lab topologies with devices like...
View ArticleProblem with PVLANs
Hello, We have set up two types of PvLANs: 1.-Promiscuous, primary. The devices integrated in this PvLAN can connect with any other device in that vlan or in any of its secondary vlan, regardless of...
View ArticleHow is select a switch type and port group to connect my LAN to my WAN (ISP)...
I have been working on setting up a pFsense 2.1 firewall in vSphere 5.5. My ISP is Cox Cable Business internet and I have three static IP addresses assigned to me in a /17. Would like to fully or in...
View ArticleUsing NSX with Virtual I/O
Suppose you have a solution that provides virtualized I/O already in place such as Cisco UCS with a fabric extender or Oracle Xsigo Fabric Interconnect. Your Virtual I/O device is allowing you to trunk...
View Articlen00b alert! 1 pNIC, multiple vNICs - how does that work?!
Hi all,I have built a standalone server running ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1. The server has multiple NICs (8 in total). Each NIC is connected to a Cisco switch (same switch).Here's what I want to do:Set up 4...
View ArticleUsing NSX with Virtual I/O
Suppose you have a solution that provides virtualized I/O already in place such as Cisco UCS with a fabric extender or Oracle Xsigo Fabric Interconnect. Your Virtual I/O device is allowing you to trunk...
View Articlenetwork problem of virtual machines in distributed switch
my virtual machines in the port group of a distributed switch can only reach other virtual machines within the same ESXi host and the ESXi host itself. they cannot reach machines outside the ESXi in...
View ArticleOne of my virtual machine cannot ping 8.8.8.8
One of my virtual machine cannot ping 8.8.8.8 but the others can. All of my vm can ping each other but just one of them cannot ping 8.8.8.8.All configuration are the same.(subnetmask,default...
View ArticleVirtual machine inside a DMZ.
I just finished converting a physical DMZ web server to a VM. I want to have the virtual instance in the DMZ. Which is the easy way to do this. 1. Configure a card on the Esxi server to point to the...
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iSCSI binding, teaming, etc?
New to the VMware and Virtual Architecture stuff, just wondering if there is more optimization that I can do with my network in regards to my remote storage (where the virtual machines reside) and my...
View ArticlevSphere Distributed Switch 5.5 IPFIX/Netflow Collector
Dear All, I was trying to monitor IPFIX/Netflow on VDS 5.5 with solarwind netflow analyzer it not successful.anyone successfully monitored IPFIX/Netflow with VDS 5.5 ? please share your monitoring tool...
View ArticleTechnological details behind VMware IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) driver
Hi, I'm interested in technological details behind VMware IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) driver. There is very little information available publicly...
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Teaming configuration for the isolated network pool?
Is it possible to set the teaming configuration for the dynamically generated port groups? In particular I have a vApp that's using an isolated network pool which means that the port group is...
View ArticleUsing noic with iscsi
Need to validate whether using noic for a config where vmotion and iscsi share the same vmnics. MY idea idea is to configure a single vDS with 2 vmk connections for iscsi, 1 with vmnic2 active and...
View ArticleCannot connect physical host PC to Virtual machine on Vmwave VSphere.
First,my English is not good,so please ignore me,thanks you...:)This is my problem:On my PC,I install VMwave Workstation,Esxi on it,and 1 VMwave VSphere 5.5.My PC have IP 193.168.40.168My host Esxi...
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