Moving from VSS to VDS and how many to have
Having some trouble deciding on how many VDS's we should have in our organisation.We have 4 clusters all under one site, expect for 1 of them they are all running 2 VSS, one for data and one for iSCSI...
View ArticleClik here to view.
multiple physical nics for single VM
hello !i need to add fail over internet connection to a vm machine. i'm using ESXi 5.5i have 4 physical NICs, 2 of which are connected to 2 separate inet providers, and 1 NIC is for local network.i'm a...
View Articlemigration from standard to distributed switch
We have vcenter running on 5.5, I am planning to migrate everything from standard switches to Distributed ones, I have more than 200 Vlans and I would hate to create dvport groups manually, any...
View ArticleIs everyone comforable with Management Port on Distributed Switch?
On ESXi 5.5 Update 2. All documentation states if vCenter has issues, I should still be able to connect to my hosts. Data network cards are already on Distributed Switch. I would like to get rid of my...
View ArticleMoving to vDS from Nexus1000v
We have Nexus1000v currently running on all hosts, but with new hosts coming in we’re thinking to use vDS. Would that be OK to run vDS in a same vCenter where couple of Nexus VSMs already running?...
View ArticleCisco devices virtualized?
We are researching information to transitioning a test and dev system to a virtual environment. We have the physical server conversion handled, but there has been a question raised. Basically, there...
View ArticleSNMP monitoring question
Hello, is it possible to monitor the network "bandwidth" VMs are producing if they are on the same host talking to each other, i.e. not going out through any physical nics. I don't see any MIB that I...
View ArticleNic Teaming and LACP what is different?
Tyring to understand the different between LACP and having multiple Active Uplinks for my Teaming policy. Do my multiple Active Uplinks in Teaming policy send traffic at the same time, or do my Network...
View ArticlePhantom networking issue
I have an odd networking issue I can't get to the bottom of in my environment. Virtual machines will randomly lose network connectivity. Sometimes a vMotion to another host will fix the problem,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NIC Team fails in ESXi 5.5
Hi All,i have 3 node cluster running ESXi 5.5.i have network setup as given below. i have 4 NICs per server. All 4 ports are trunk.Created two switches - vSwithch0 with 2 NICs (Management Console and...
View ArticleNeed help understanding with routing between networks and subnets.
Hi,I'm trying to get to grips with the logic between routing between network and subnets. I understand that if I create two different networks. i.e. vmnet1 (live)vmnet2 (testing) Then I would need...
View ArticleTeaming policy and "Failback"
I see that by default Failback is enabled on any new Port Group. Why would VMware do that? To me it seems you would never want to Failback in case a bad link suddenly comes back alive? I am missing...
View ArticleLimitations of ESXi 5.5/vSphere networking question
hey everyone.have hopefully a fairly easy and straightforward question that I need clarification on. Running the free version of ESXi 5.5.I have 5 physical NIC's in my server. My original plan was to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hi anybody know what is the meaning of threshold mean?
what the meaning of threshold in IT world mean? always get confuse with that
View ArticleHealth Check the Physical Network
What is the best way to health check the physical network my ESXi hosts will run on prior to installation - via command line or via a free tool of some kind?
View ArticledvSwitch free ports
I have a number of dvSwitch port groups that are running out of free ports. On ESXi 5.0, can the number of available ports be increased without downtime?Thanks!
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 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Change from Distributed to Standard switch
Hi, Any guides to migrate from Distributed switch to Standard switch ? I have found many guides the other way, but not from distributed to standard Problem is that the customer dont have license to use...
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 Article