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Sending IPv4 packets through socket failed: Host is down
When you migrate a virtual machine, the process fails with the error: Operation timeout When you create snapshot a virtual machine, the process fails with the error:An error occurred while taking a...
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When building vCenter which Port Group do I join it to
Hiya,We are going to build our vCenter on a Windows server which will be one of the VMs in the Cluster.We have isolated networks for management and VM traffic both being on different VLANs and Port...
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Do I need to Join ESXI Hosts to the Windows domain
Hiya, We are going to be using vSphere 6.0. We will have 3 hosts controlled by vCenter.SSO is being used in an embedded fashion and it will be linked into AD (Active Directory)Would there be a need to...
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Connecting MGMT to correct Port when using NPAR VMware
HiyaWe are presenting some of our NICs to VMware using NPAR.The physical NIC I'm concerned about is 10gb and will be split into 2 partitions.partition 1 20% traffic MGMT network (VLAN 5)partition 2 80%...
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HA & Vmotion Traffic VMware
Hiya From what I've read HA & vMotion traffic only flows between the hosts. This traffic doesn't have to communicate with anything else. Therefore if you had 2 hosts you could send such traffic...
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VMs on Different ESXi Hosts Can't Communicate With Each Other
Hello, I need little a bit help. We have six ESX Hosts 6.0 and there are about 250 vms running.These hosts are connected with two (Dell M100E) 10G netcard to the two Nexus, one for production, vmotion...
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vSphere VM Basic Networking questions......
Hello guys,I have a questions which is probably on the niveau of a DAU.... I have set up and ESXi 5.5 Host and installed vSphere on my desktop.I created some VMs and now i dont want to to use the...
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Vsphere VST question
I have a test lab in which i have setup Vsphere VST. The lab contains 1 host with 2 physical nic's. On the Host I have setup 3 VM's. Physicl nic 1(vswitch 0) is part of the ESxi management n/w and...
View Articlelink aggreagation on standard vswitch
does vmware supports NICS that are configured with link aggregation in the switch and be connected to standard switch?or it is advisable to use the distributed switch?
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Migrating from Standard Switches to Distributed Switches
Hi Experts, We are in process of migrating from Standard Switches to Distributed Switches in 6.0, Right now we have multiple vendor hardware , like Dell chassis ,CISCO chassis , Dell standalone.Dell...
View ArticleJumbo frames Can I set MTU higher than 9000 ESXi 6.5
Is 9000 the highest supported MTU size for ESXi? SQL can go as high as 32,000. We have a SQL server and it's associated application on the same host. Is there a way in the VDS, to set communication...
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Internal networking setup causing issues when vmotioning servers
I have 2 virtual servers setup where the client server "ClientA" connects to a SQL database on the database server "ServerSQL". I've found that on our VMware ESXi 6.0 farm that when I manually storage...
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Network IO Control question
Hi, I have two cases where I will be using VMK ports for traffic types other than those listed under NIOC's System Traffic Types (like vmotion, management etc.), one will be the VMK port used by...
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Does ESXi throttle bandwidth per vm for NBD backups?
We recently moved from our previous product which did Hot Add backups to a newer product called Rubrik which does NBD backups (no negative comments on this please ). We have dedicated 10GbE to our...
View Article2 nd NIC for Cluster Communications
Hi i got a MS File Server Cluster (2012r2) both Servers have 2 NICs. One Nic should be for the normal LAN Communication, the 2nd NIC should be for internal Cluster Communication.between the File...
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ingress and egress traffic shaping
Dear allHi are these correct about ingress and egress traffic shaping? 1- ingress = traffic from vm to vds and vds to wan or lan 2- ingress is output traffic3- egress = traffic from wan or lan to vds...
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Can you move ESXi Hosts with distributed switches from one vCenter to another?
Hi, Can you move ESXi Hosts with distributed switches from one vCenter to another? I know you couldn't under previous versions of ESXi but I assume that has changed now. We do it all the time with...
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Qlogic QLE8262 not presenting as storage adapter after 6u3 upgrade.
I was recently asked to assist with an in place upgrade of our ESXi5.5u2 hosts 6u3. The hosts are Dell r720s. The ISO was VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update03-5050593.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00. The...
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Traffic Flow in Nested VM
Hello Can anyone plz explain how does a packet flow in a Nested Cloud Environment? Thanks
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4 NICS 4 different networks
Hello, I have installed a ESXi 6.0.0It has 4 NICS.At the moment I have a w7 virtual machine and a Ubuntu, W7 detects all NICs. I will use it to connect remotely to this virtual machine to control and...
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