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...
View ArticleInternal 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...
View ArticleNetwork 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...
View ArticleDoes 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...
View Articleingress 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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleTraffic Flow in Nested VM
Hello Can anyone plz explain how does a packet flow in a Nested Cloud Environment? Thanks
View ArticleUnable to vMotion between hosts
Hi there!I'm trying to vMotion VMs between an old cluster (vsphere 5.5 / dvSwitchs 5.5) to another one (vsphere 6.5 / dvswitch 6.5).I'm using vCSA 6.5 Flash mode. It gives me the errors: "Change the...
View ArticleMigrate an Existing Virtual Adapter between vSphere Distributed Switches
We are in the process of Migrating our 5.5 esxi hosts and vCenter 5.5 from 1Gb Nics to 10Gb Nics. We currently have Two Distributed Switches, one which is has two 1Gb Nics which has a MGT port group...
View ArticleCan not Ping Secondary Ip in VM Created By ESXI 5.1
Hi All, Maybe my question is so easy but I don't know how to do because I'm newbie at ESXI. I'm using ESXI 5.1 I have two different ip in two different block(192.168.2.48 & 10.122.127.203). I have...
View ArticleBackup Virtual NIC stop responding after backup on Linux VM
Hi All, My Name is Mithilesh Singh, I am working in a corporate organization and having ESXi 5.5 virtual infra. There is some issue reported for Linux VM and team is saying that backup NIC on VM...
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Legacy session is deprecated and might not be supported in future releases.
When I am trying to add port mirroring in my distributed switches, I see below error. vCenter version is 6.0.0, 3018523. Version of distributed switch is 6.0.0. I have similar vcenter and dvSwitch with...
View ArticleESXI/Vmware network setup, just getting started.
I got 3 hosts, each have Cat5 port and a 10G fiber port. I am new to VMware but have worked with Hyper-V for the last 5+ years. We are moving to VMware and I am trying to get an eval system up with...
View ArticlevDS LAG + another active uplink for the same distributed port group
I am using vSphere 6.5 with Enterprise Plus license. Here is a simplified version of my vDS topology:There are 2 hosts: H1 and H2Host H1 has 2 NICs, and host H2 has 4 NICsThe first NIC on each host,...
View Articlecan't have a connectivity using a dvportgroup
hello, i have a vm connected to a csr1000v with a trunk(vlan 200-208) but can't get a ping between the two vm, strangelly i have the same thing 2 vm with the same thing and these works fine , do you...
View Articlevmnic buffer tx rx value cannot be changed
vmnic buffer tx rx value cannot be changed once the mtu is set to 9000. i.e RX preset maximum shows as 512 when the mtu is set to 9000. and if i reduce the mtu to 1500 then the rx preset maximum shows...
View ArticlevNics show diferents VLANs
Hi. I was asked to create a new VDS for out DMZ network using different VLANSSo the environment has 4 vNics per host 0 and 1 are used for Production Network (vSwitch) and 2 and 3 were not used, so I...
View ArticleHow to check which adapter is an active?
Hi, All I configured it as below; vmnic1 is an active and vmnic0 is an standby.# esxcli network vswitch standard policy failover get -v vSwitch0 Load Balancing: srcport Network Failure Detection:...
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