Health Check of Standard switch
Hi Using VMWare ESXi 5.5, configured two network switches - vSwitch0 (Management Network)- vSwitch1 (Data Network)vSwitch1 has two adapters (vmnic0 and vmnic1) vSwitch0 works fine. How do I test...
View ArticleConsiderations NFS vmk ports when moving a HOst from 1 Distributed switch to...
hi everyone, i wonder if you can assist with the following ... I currently have a number of ESX Hosts which are attached to dvswitch0 for Management and NFS connectivity. VM networking has already...
View ArticleNetwork topology recommendations and configurations
Greetings everyone, this is my first post here. I am fairly new to vmWare, but not new to networking and IT as I have been doing this professionally for over 20 years. However, learning new...
View ArticleStandard Switch to DV Switch Migration
Hello VMware heroes, I am planning to convert the virtual networking from standard switch to dv switch in my company's infrastructure as part of ESX 4.1 to 5.5 upgrade. We have around 160 hosts and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Port groups in vDS
Hi, I am new to vDS. I am still not clear about Port groups. I understand in standard switches we define, types of Port groups i.e VMkernel or VM network but I am don't understand how port groups are...
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Configuring virtual network - backup VM using separate network
I'm a little out of my depth and would like some advice. My goal is to backup my virtual machines on Host 1 to Host 2 using a different network to my public facing network. On Host 1 I have 3 VMs on...
View ArticlevDS and physical network configuration
Hello, we are migrating our vsphere network configuration from vStandard to vDistributed Switch and during our tests we are facing some configuration issues and at least some "best practice" problems....
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Teamed NIC network not failing over
We've been running ESXi Ent/Plus with our HP DL380/580 servers for a few years now and typically for network resilience and traffic performance we configure either vSwitch or Distributed vSwitch in our...
View ArticleProduction Network layout review
Could I please have one of the Gurus once over this vSwitch, Port Group and VLAN layout I have finalized for my production network and either bless it or pick it apart. I would like to go live with...
View ArticleUnable to migrate Vsphere Standard Switch to Distrbuted Switch.
Hi all, We have HP Blades and we are trying to add two new Cisco UCS servers to the same cluster in which We have HP BL460 Blades. VCenter is 5.5 U1 and ESXi is 5.0 U2. We are adding ESXi in...
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 Articleiscsi datastore not showing in disk management
Hey guys! I am still new at this so i'll try to explain to the best of my ability. We're using Dell Compellent as our storage, I created a shared Volume which is Mapped to our environment in VSphere....
View ArticlevDS and physical network configuration
Hello, we are migrating our vsphere network configuration from vStandard to vDistributed Switch and during our tests we are facing some configuration issues and at least some "best practice" problems....
View ArticleAre 2 10Gb NICs enough per host?
Looking to replace our production hosts, the new ones would only have 2 10Gb NICs per. Is this enough? (we are using iSCSI Sans) Is there any literature laying out the best practices in a design...
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physical switch port configuration brocade vdx6740 and vds with private vlan
Hello community, landscape:- ESX 5.5- Brocade VDX 6740 and VDX 6740T-1G with NOS 5.0.1 At the moment i try to change the vendor on switch side from cisco to brocade. After successfully testing native...
View ArticleNexus 1000v password recovery
I'm trying to recover the password on a Nexus 1000v VSM that I've cloned from our live environment and am running in a Workstation nested environment. When I try to boot the VSM from the installation...
View Articlemulti NIC vMotion vs active/active adapters
hi, we have added two NICs for one switch and created two portgroups for two vmtions. vmotion1 uses vmnic0 as active/vmnic1 as standby vmotion2 uses vmnic1 as active/ vmnic0 as standby so It is multi...
View ArticleCan an ESX host be configured with multiple subnets that are the same but...
I'm looking to setup up a different environments on a ESX host i.e Prod and Test. As both of these environments must have dulpicate ip address ranges is it possible to configure ESX to have the same...
View ArticleMoving a vm between hosts faster
Hello,my goal is to make the move of a vm between hosts faster. Here is what I have : two physical hosts linked to a switch. Each hosts has 4 NICs. 2 for management, 1 LAN and 1 WAN a license for...
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