Mixed 10Gb and 1Gb devices
hello, in my lab I've 3 ESXi 6.5U1 and a VCSA 6.5U1 with vsan enabled. Each host have 4 1gb NICs and 2 10gb NICs.Currently I have:1 (per host) 1gb NIC connected to a gigabit switch for management1 (per...
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Port-channel witch vlans between ESXi 5.5 and ASA5506-X
Hello everyone!I just purchased Cisco ASA 5506-X K9. I have two VMware ESXi 5.5 U3 (build 3568722) hosts.Now I need to connect each host to my Cisco ASA 5506. I want to configure vlan trunk with two...
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Migrate Virtual Machine from cluster to single host
Hi All,I have 01 data center with: 01 cluster ( 02 hosts), 05 hosts belong the data centerThe cluster with information as below:+ 02 hosts belong cluster ( host 01 , host 02)+ 01 vSphere Distributed...
View ArticlevNetwork Distributed Switch is not visible
Hello, I'm using ESXi 6.5.0 build 4887370, vSphere Client 6.0.0 build 2502222 and VSphere Web client. I can use and configure vSwitch on both vSphere Client and Web Client without errors or...
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Port mirroring on vSwitch
Hello, I have this scenario: vSwitch0 -> vmnic0 --> physicalAppliance | |--> PortGroup0 | | | |--> VirtualMachine0 | | | |--> VirtualMachine1...
View ArticleDoes LB method have any impact on vSwitch with single VMNIC which is...
Hi, I've come upon a setup at a customer whereby they have a physical HP switch with 3 physical ports configured in a LACP group.Each of those physical ports are connected into a single ESXi host.On...
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Urgent add physical network to vSwitch Management Network (VMkernel)
Hi All,- My situation: I have a cluster VMware with 02 host, which it have information as below:+ Config vSphere HA+ Host 01: 01 management standard switch: only physical adapter network+ Host 02: 01...
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Unknown EtherType handling in DVS
Hello Experts, Wanted to know how unknown ethertype packets from VM are handled by DVS. I see following stats when unknown ethertype packets are received by DVS. esxcli network port stats get -p...
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Need help understanding Port ID on VDS portgroup
In reference to the attached image.. 1) Where does "Port ID: 161" come from? How is it generated? 2) What is the best way to view Port IDs ? GUI (if possible) and CLI? 3) Are there different types of...
View ArticleLACP on VDS over two hosts
Hi, I want to configure a VDS with LACP on two hosts with two uplink per host.I dont know how to do that. Thanks for your help.Regards, Aristophane
View ArticleHow to rename vnic in Vswitch
Hi All, we have NIC teaming with Active And stand by Nics. under networking on the right pane where it shows Vnic 0 and Vnic 1, for Vnic0 , it shows Stand by After fail over , it still shows as...
View Articlenetwork portgroup problem
Hi I have recently created small virtual network, with 4 VM, several vSwitches and portgroups on ESXi 6.0, for a few days everything works just fine, suddenly I've got this message: This VM is attached...
View ArticleNetwork failover testing with VDs and port channels
Hi Guys I have a cluster of hosts and have been testing with one vm on one host for network failover Basically, i have two physical switches with vpc's My host has two nics connected to my test vds,...
View ArticleSecurity Policy for a Distributed Port Group
I have esxi 6.0 4192238 . I created a Distributed Switch distributed port group . By default, Promiscuous Mode is Reject. MAC Address Changes and Forced Transmits are Accept. but vmware says...
View ArticleDisable Auto Rollback Use Case
As it is recommended that not to disable Auto Rollback then why this disable option is available in advance settings of vCenter. Is there any use case where it is recommended to disable this setting?
View ArticleWhat VLANs are Trunked into a ESXi Host
Hi, One of the questions I get asked a lot is "Is this vlan trunked into the ESXi Hosts". I then have to speak to the network team to confirm if it is or not. Is there a way on the ESXi host I can...
View ArticleERSPAN on VDS - How does traffic flow to external physical device?
I'm trying to understand how ERSPAN outputs traffic from VDS to an external physical analyzer. The main concern is the potential saturation of ESXi vds uplinks. For example, assume we have 10 ESXi...
View ArticleNic FailOver - Generate traffic on vmnic in standby mode for MacAdress Table...
Hello all, I want to see all the free interfaces of my physical switch. For this, I querying the SNMP Mac Adress Table in SNMP and have all what I need. But I've a problem/questions for the My ESXi...
View Articletest NIC performance
Hi! I have 4 host cluster. Each host with two Mallanox ConnectX-3, IPoIB, vSphere shows 40Gbps for each port. How to chesk (test) real port performance, real max troughput?
View ArticlevSphere DVS question
Can we have the same VLAN for vmkernel port of VSS and also for a VMnetwork of DVS ? (same host participating in VSS and DVS) Apologies for this newbie query
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