ESXi 5.5 VDS + LACP Setup Help/Tutorials
I'm looking for some help with LACP setup. Specifically, with VLANs over LACP links. I currently have LACP setup and working properly however only on the link's native subnet. I can use a non-LACP...
View ArticlevSphere Port Mirroring Limitations
Hi, Are there any port mirroring limitations regarding on how much VMs i can mirror and so on? The reason i am asking is because we ran into an issue where when more than 3-4 VMs the have port...
View ArticleCurrent VM network - vs - Best practice
Hello all, I have inherited a 6 Cluster, with 60 ESX hosts VM Data Center. We have 6 VLANs , spread into 2 vSwitches on 6 VMNics total. At the moment vMotion is very slow (emptying a 25 VMs ESX...
View Articlemigrating distribution switch conf to new VC
Hi, I am currently running VC 5.1 in a Windows box and would like to migrate to VCSA running version 6.0. From what I've read it should be straight forward. Disconnecting the hosts from the old VC and...
View ArticleAutomatic vmotion if Mgmt Network fails
This is probably crackpot, but the only stupid questions are the ones we don't ask, right? We have esxi 5.5 hosts with separate vswitches for management, vmotion and iscsi san connections. Each...
View ArticleProblem with setting traffic rules on vds port
I have some problem with setting traffic rules on vds port.Problem is described here:A general system error occurred: Not initializedand here:Unable to create filterPolicy on DVS port on vCenter...
View ArticleManaging vDS Port Mirroring Sessions
When using vDS port mirroring, you can only select groups of Vms by ports, not by other groupings such as virtual machine folders, clusters, hosts, etc. This means that although you can set up a port...
View ArticleStrange out of order packet issue
Not sure if this is the proper place to ask this or not, but I have an odd issue with a VM (really multiple VMs but they all do the same thing). The VMs run RHEL 6.5 and spool a print job to a printer...
View ArticleGetting only 100-110 MB/s on a 1GB Full Duplex vmnic (vmnic is recognized by...
Hello All, I have a cluster with about 20 ESX 5.5 hosts, Located on DELL Blades (M610) with 6 total VMNICS of 1GB each. All nics are recognized by vmware as "1000 full" However, when i migrate a server...
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Network adapter disappeared from a VM - "There is no network assigned to this...
Hi everyone, I had an issue with a Virtual Machine "losing" its (virtual) Network Adapter. The VM is hosted in a ESXi host - running 5.5 Update 2 (5.5U2) - and that ESXI Host belongs to a Cluster of...
View Article'Establised' traffic in vDistributed switch Traffic Filter
Looking into Traffic Filters (Access control Lists) on the vSphere 5.5 distributed switches and can't tell if there any mechanism to allow return traffic to be allowed back in if we use a default deny....
View ArticleHost server doesn't recognize network cards after rebooting
I installed the Vsphere 6.0 trial in a HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 v2 server, I downloaded the installation CD from HP. I had this host server running with 2 virtual servers inside for 10 days until...
View ArticlevSphere Standard Switch not visible in vSphere Client
Hi, I'm having a strange issue. In vCenter 6 I can correctly see vSphere Standard Switches of hosts running ESXi 6.0 but I cannot see vSphere Standard Switch 1 (only vSwitch0 and vSwitch1 is present)...
View ArticleProblems with Vsphere, working server stopped recognizing network cards after...
I installed the Vsphere 6.0 trial in a HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 v2 server, I downloaded the installation CD from HP. I had this host server running with 2 virtual servers inside for more than 10 days...
View ArticleNIOC vs Palo QOS
With UCS I can use VIC (Palo) to assign QOS based on the UCS vnic that the traffic is on. In this way, I don't have to have a qos tag applied to a packet by the virtual switch, or even use NIOC. But...
View ArticleNIOC Share values within a port group
I have two groups of virtual machines that are both within the same port group. How can I assign higher nioc share values to group a of Vms than to group B of vms if both groups of vms use the same...
View ArticleVLANs and performance testing
We are using vSphere with servers and clients on the host, and we need to do application performance testing using them. If I create a VLAN used only for my server and client (with no external net...
View ArticlevDS Port Mirroring
I am mirroring traffic from virtual machine A on a VDS. It is mirroring traffic to a physical server somewhere else across the datacenter. As always, I also have a vmkernel port used for ESXi...
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hosts ip's and dvswitch
hi everyone. i need to change ip adresses on hosts in claster with dvswitch.the only way i have discovered is the disconnect-connect procedure. in that case vswitch on vcenter losing all information...
View ArticleHow can I see the mac address table of a vSwitch
I am having some ARP collisions on my network and have determined that the offending mac address belongs to VMWare. I have already looked at the mac address tables of my physical switches but can't...
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