VC 5.5 & Nexus 1000v - Migrate host from mgmt-uplink to mgmt-uplink2 fail
Hi all, We are trying to migrate 1 host from 1 uplink port-profile, letps say mgmt-uplink, to another, mgmt-uplink2, with same configuration. Why? Because a port-profile default max-port was configured...
View ArticleChange vmnic of vMotion Service
Hi Everybody I have the following scenario: Site "A"- 2 ESX hosts (vSphere 5.5) in a cluster- vSwitch0: 2 vmnics (vmnic0 and vmnic1) which are configured in teaming for Management Network (on subnet...
View ArticleTCP/IP Stacks at the VMkernel Level in vSphere 6.0
vSphere 6.0 introduces TCP/IP Stacks at the VMkernel Level The documentation VMkernel Networking Layer states:Provisioning trafficHandles the data that is transferred for virtual machine cold...
View Articleuse Traffic filtering on dvs for "allow this, drop the rest" ACL?
I'm trying to implement a "allow selected traffic, drop the rest" ACL rule. However, after setting up multiple ALLOW rules on my dvs port group for the traffic that should be allowed, I add the last...
View ArticleImproving MS Windows 2008 R2 10 GB Network Speed Virtual Machine Question
VMware ESXi 5.5 EnterpriseVMhost Server: Dell PowerEdge R730 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2687W @ 3.10GHz with 767.91 GB memory.vSwitch1 (Local with no vmnic assigned)Virtual Machines: 2 MS Windows 2008 R2 with...
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Stuck in Nexus 1000v deployment
Hello, Colleagues!Please give me some advice for the problem that I currently have.I am trying to deploy Cisco Nexus 1000v in our infrastructure.Our infrastructure includes 5 ESXi 5.1 hosts in...
View ArticleNetwork design question for upcoming P2V of SQL server with iSCSI direct...
Greetings, We're going to be performing a P2V of our current physical server with 3 directly attached iSCSI volumes in its current setup. The VM will have the same 3 directly connected iSCSI volumes....
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Penalty for increase vswitch ports number
Hi, Actually we have 4 ESXi in a cluster, it has 2 physical adapter associate to a vswitch with 128 ports. We need increase to 256 ports all ESXi, but we have a doubt:- What is the penalty we would...
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esxi etherchannel
after a etherchannel has been confgured on the switch side, 1. does the vswitch/dvS needs to immeditaly be in a IP has load balancing policy immediately or can it stay on the default of load balncing...
View ArticleUplink Speed specification
I have a number of 10Gb uplinks for various ESXi hosts. However, my link speed is set in ESXi as though these were 20Gb links, even though they are in fact 10Gb links. What is the risk or potential...
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Redundancy/Best pracites when setting up VM hosts
When we configure new VM hosts we run nic1 and 3 to switch 1 and then NIC 2 and 4 to switch 2. NIC /3 map to a private Vlan for VM guests and nic2/4 go to a Vlan for public IPs. I’ve never taken a VM...
View Articlehost vmnic IP ranges
question concerning the IP ranges found on the vmnics in my network.when i'm looking under each host -> configuration -> network adapter, I see a list of "observed IP ranges".where do these get...
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Network configuration
Hey Guys! Im fairly new to ESXi and vSphere.. (i started today).I managed to install ESXi and the second Ethernet Controller. Now i want to create a "Network" in vSphere. I got 4 Ethernet ports....
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Disable redundancy in a vSwitch
Hello folks, I have one single ESXi Host with vSphere web installed and this particular host has got 4 NICs in total.NIC configuration is as follows:vmnic0 - LAN (connected to a 100MiB Switch)vmnic1 -...
View ArticleCan NIC teaming offer proper loadbalance to a single NFS volume?
Can I benefit from multiple 1GbE ports on a host to a single NFS volume or not? It seems there are a lot of answers for and against this question. Or do I need to create several volumes (1 pr. NIC used...
View ArticlePhysical to Virtual DR
Hi, Is it possible to have Physical Servers on primary site and virtual servers on DR.What if DR is moved back to Physical Servers
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Question about number of ports in a VDS port group
(I posted this a few days ago in the VCenter area, but I've not received any comments) We’ve been using standard switches in our environment. We’re looking at migrating to 6.0, and I want to take to...
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[Alarm] Network uplink redundancy lost - How to check in ESXi ?
Hi,With alert "network uplink redundancy lost", how do I check the ESXi ? Thanks
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vDS switch design - one vds with all port groups or many vds with same...
Hi All, Assuming: I have 8 physical uplinks.4 Vlans and go to 4 different switches.2x Management2x vMotion2x VM network2x Backup scenario 1: create 1vds switch with 4 port groups (all uplinks go to...
View ArticlevDS For A Fireall with Multiple Interfaces and DMZ's
Good morning, I'm sure this question has been asked before but I can't seem to find it anywhere so I apologize in advance if it's a duplicate and I'm very familiar with vCenter and ESXi but I'm a...
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