Issue with Nexus 1000v iSCSI multipathing
Hello Experts, We have configured port-profile in Nexus 1000v switch to be used for VMKs that will binded to iSCSI software vmhba adapter. This iSCSI vmhba adapter is part of EMC (RecoverPoint for...
View ArticleBest practice question - one vSwitch or multiple vSwitches
I'm running Esxi 5.5 in a lab prior to deploying to a customer and I am trying to ensure I do the best solution for the customer. My VMWare host has 4 NICs and they all attach to a switch. 2 of the...
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vSwitch Management Network drops connection after VLAN change
I have current issue with my vSwitch that cuts me off once I change the VMkernel Port (Management Network) vlan to VLAN 10 on my ESXi host.My Cisco switch has VLAN 10 for LAN and VLAN 20 for DMZ. The...
View ArticleTeaming Uplinks to Hosts
Hiya. We have a scenario where we have 2 x 1gb NICs on each of our hosts and this is not going to provide enough bandwidth. Id like to stick with the default "Route Based on Originating Port ID" for...
View ArticleGetting information VM Port associated to Nexus 1000V
I would like to have PowerCli script which can extract information of Port configured for associated VM to Nexus1000v. Also if script can extract information of Physical VNIC associated to Nexus 1000V....
View ArticleIs there anything wrong with using Active/Active when teaming
Hiya, I am designing a VMware environment. I'm going to have 2 up-links going to 2 pSwitches.The teaming method being used will be "route based on originating port ID". Is there any reason I cannot set...
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VMware Infrastructure Design
Hiya After having meetings with our network team I have come up with this design. They proposed I use 4 switches as shown in the diagram. But as the storage network is isolated from the VM network, How...
View ArticleIdentifying NICs on an ESXI Host
Hiya,I'm going to be adding 3 PCI cards to an ESXI Host, each with 2 10gb NICs. I am going to be placing different VLANs on each NIC for seporating the different types of traffic. How do I know which...
View ArticleConnecting to an Equalogic Array using Port Binding
Hiya,I am setting up Port Binding on an ESXI host and have 2 VMkernels connected to 2 NICs, which is the correct way, but when specifying the IP address for the Target do I specify the same Group IP...
View ArticleVMware Infrastructure Design - Network
Hi Everyone, I have a 2 X 4 Node Cluster with each node having 6 NIC (4 X 1 GB; 2 X 10 GB NIC). I am currently setting up distributed switch and going back and forth on the setup. Let me know if this...
View ArticleUsing NPAR on NICs VMware
Hiya,We may decide to use NPAR(network Partitioning) to save on Physical NICs in our VMware environment.But how would I configure & connect up to my management network during setup. We were going...
View ArticleTraffic Shaping help
Hi all,I'm working on a project and I'm trying to give a solution with traffic shaping.I have 11 VMs and I want to share 700Mbps on them.1 VM will take 200 Mbps10 VMs will share 500Mbps but I want to...
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Unexpected character in vsphere
Hi all, My end user is receiving pop-ups with the following error, current version is 5.5. Kindly suggest for any solutions. Thanks!
View ArticleSending 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...
View ArticleDo 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%...
View ArticleHA & 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...
View ArticleVMs 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...
View ArticlevSphere 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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