Prioritizing voice traffic inside the vDS switch for Lync/Skype/sip/dscp...
Dear Experts! I'm posting this today because I have looked and failed to find any content on this subject. Within ESXi 6.0 and above we have now been blessed with the feature of marking/tagging...
View ArticleVM networking setup
Hi Team, I am not strong at networking area.Can some one guide me on how to configure an appliance VM that needs needs two physical Ethernet ports on its own, one port for WAN (local SonicWall), the...
View ArticleVirtual NIC Binding on ESXi 6.0 for DMZ
Lets say I have a VMWare ESXi Server with 2 Physical Network Adapters. Inside I'm running 5 Virtual Machines. I have setup 3 Virtual Switches inside ESXi.Virtual Switch 1 - LAN - (3 VM's) - Physical...
View ArticleVDS teaming and Etherchannel
We are moving to Cisco switches in our Datacenter and am doing my first ESXi host config going to Cisco Etherchannel. I am seeing some bizarre behavior in testing failover. First off running ESXi 6...
View Articlevm network design
i have one vcenter 6 and 2 cluster on vcenter. i created one Disturbed switch for 2 cluster ( for vm network ) and i created one Disturbed switch for 2 cluster ( for vmotion network ) is it corret...
View Articlevmware + cisco load balance
Hi all,Can you help me?I have:1) BladeCenter with 16 blades and two Cisco 3020 switches. All blades have two internal ethernet ports (one at each switch).2) Both Cisco 3020 are connected to core -...
View ArticlevDS does not come back after power outage
I have a cluster that lost power and the vDS does not come back, I'm not sure how to troubleshoot that? Thank you
View ArticlepNICs receive all network traffic
All of my 6.0 ESXi hosts receives all network frames from any VLAN. I have one vSwitch per host with NIC Teaming in some hosts. Promiscuous mode is set to reject in all hosts.Capturing and analyzing...
View Articlepnics and switch
I am not strong at networking area.Can some one guide me on how to configure physical switch between pnics cables (esxi) there are 2 physical switchs and there are 4 esxi host. every hosts has 4 nics....
View ArticleTCP Chimney Offload supported network adapters
Hi According to this KB :https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1465I need to have a Virtual Switch that is bound to one or more...
View Articleetherchannel
i have 2 cisco swicth and 5 esxi hosts. There are cross connection between esxi to 2 cisco swicths. 2 cisco switchs etherchannel and esxi ip hash policy . is there any problem on desing. or loop ?
View Articlevcenter 6 network
i added my topoloji. on vcenter 6 Distributed Switch (VDS) with ip hash ( not lacp config ) just ip hash policy and 2 cisco physical switch with etherchannel . is there any problem ? 7 esxi's same...
View ArticlevmKernel and VM port group both use the same VLAN tag (same vSwitch)
Hi Folks, I am working in a ESXi 5.5 environment which has the Management Network/VMkernel port set-up on with a VLAN tag of 10. I can see there is also a virtual machine port group also using VLAN tag...
View ArticleAdd Multiple Physical Nics to Vswitch
Dear All,I have ESXi 5.0 host. 20 VM's have been running on this host. He host server has 4 physical 1 Gig nics but only one nic is configured for vswitch 0. I want to add all three remaining nics to...
View ArticleAdd Multiple Physical Nics to Vswitch
Dear All,I have ESXi 5.0 host. 20 VM's have been running on this host. He host server has 4 physical 1 Gig nics but only one nic is configured for vswitch 0. I want to add all three remaining nics to...
View ArticleCisco Switch, Setup etherchannel group per vswitch?
I have two Hosts and plan on connecting to two separate Cisco switches.Looking to find out if I need to setup an Etherchannel group per vswitch.I have not been able to find an answer to this so I...
View Articlenetwork design infrastructure
i install vcenter 6.0 and 10 esxi 6.0 then i created 2 cluster on that vcenter. so one vcenter and 2 cluster on infrastructure. i created just one vds for virtual machines and just one vds for vmotion...
View Articlearping can linux guest on esxi but no ip is working
guest can ping the esxi server but no further. other systems in the same subnets cannot be reached. i have setup 3 vlans. this is the management vlan. the esxi server gets its ip via dhcp from bwell....
View ArticleHow to get switch info (public or private network) using SOAP API ?
I can't find a way to get any information about VirtualSwitch using WS API. Only create and remove method:* addVirtualSwitch* removeVirtualSwitch Also there is no common way to get info from folder,...
View Articleslow upload, fast download
Hi, I have ordered a dedicated server ar SYS (So You Start) but have a terrible network speed to my office.When downloading something from the hyperviser (VMware ESXi 5.5) or vm to my office, I only...
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