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change VMkernel-port to an other vSwitch
Hiis there a easy way to change the VMkernel-port to an other vSwitch without downtime/ connection lost on the management?i want to get the "management_altes-Netz" on the vSwitch1.Scenario:Thank you...
View ArticleNetwork IO Control share calculation confusion
Hi everyone. In the Resource Allocation tab for a DvS there are the built-in system network resource pools and then there are custom ones. I'm a bit confused on the calculation of how bandwidth is...
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How VMware sees Physical Adapters
Hello, I'm trying to reinforce my understanding of vSS and vDS for VCAP study and I'm after some clarification. When we're talking about Physical Adapters in VMware and when I see them in the GUI, am I...
View ArticleSeparate dvSwitches for traffic types or use NetworkIO Control with port groups?
If you look at traditional networking documents they recommend separating traffic types into separate physical switches. If that's not possible then using a larger core switch with multiple VLANs can...
View ArticlePVLAN configuration with Arista Switch
Hi all,I want to configure a vDS for private VLAN.My config, HP blades using FlexFabric (Tunnel Mode)Arista switches 7400 seriesVMWare vsphere 5.0 Update 2 These are the steps i did on the vDS.1....
View ArticleCreated a dVSwitch added a host and VM and have no internet connection now
I created a dvSwitch added one of my hosts to it and added one of my VM's on that host to it. Now the VM doesn't have an internet connection. The other VM's on the host do not either. Any suggestions?...
View ArticlePort mirroring available with vswitch or only dvswitch?
I am port mirroring on a Juniper switch and are connecting the analyzer port from switch to a nic that is connected to a separate vswitch and setting promiscuous mode on it. I then connect this to a...
View ArticleWorkaround for Cisco Nexus 1000v for vEthernet Interface limit
Hi All Actually we have a cisco nexus 1000v Release 4.2(1)SV1(5.1) with VMware ESXi 4.1 and we are reaching the max number for vnics or vEthernet Interface for this version. Do you know if...
View ArticleNexus 1000v - to use or not to use?
Hi, I'm at a client's site and they are considering using the 1000v for their DVS's - I'm just concerned about the supportability once we hand this over to the vmware support guys. My question really...
View ArticleVLAN ID Trunk
Dear All,i have ESXI5.1 with 1 NIC, however i want to create two VLAN's 20 and 10, and want them to be seperated for test purposes,i've created a Vlan Trunk 4095 and vSwitch for Vlans 10 and 20,the...
View ArticleTagging design question
I have got 2 ESX servers to setup with 4 port NICs each - so I would like to know the best way to load network traffic based on management, storage and VM network. Should I team 2 NICs for iscsi...
View ArticleMTU and VLAN Health checks. Major Issues?
Hi AllI am being told that my hosts are pumping out giant broadcast frames on my network that could cause significant packet storms to occur?This only seems to happen if there is a problem with a VLAN...
View ArticleDistributed switch, failover order
Hi,I have two different hosts type in one cluster. I am creating vDS for this cluster and I am going to take two network card (from each host) to this vDS.The point is that one type of hosts have one...
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network driving me nuts, can't get onto it... 2008 r2 help plz
Hey guys, this is driving me insane. I am trying to get a machine onto a host windows 2008 r2. I have set it up from the start and it just won't see the network. I tried to give it a static and it...
View ArticledvSwitch color codes for uplink ports
Hi I have a couple of distributed virtual switches with 9 member hosts (all of them BL460g7 blades with virtual connect flex-10 networking hardware)I have observed differences between the colors of the...
View ArticlevLAN not showing in ESXi CDP output
I have a vLAN that I am using in my environment and that is working fine between the ESXi host and the physical network. However, when I run the command to show CDP information from the ESXi host, I...
View ArticleVDS config best practice
Hi I have the below config, and need to determine if it needs modification or the current config is fine as is. We have 3 Clusters Cluster 15 x Rack mount servers each with 6 VMNICs (1GBps)2 X VMnic in...
View ArticleVM's interface rx-counter decreased after snapshot
Hi All, we found that the interface conter (e.g. eth0) has been decreased during/after a snapshot: 1. #> ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX" RX packets:61895 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0...
View ArticleNeed help with migrating servers from Standard VSwitches to vDS
I have a two host VSphere environment. Each physical host has two NIC's. Currently I have one host in one subnet and one host in another subnet. Each host has it's own standard VSwitch. I can ping and...
View ArticleVmotion Nic question regarding implementing vsphere 5.1 solution with SAN
Hey, We are in the design faze of a vsphere 5.1 implementation. The specific question that I have is should I put the Host vmotion traffic on my core flat network or on the Iscsi network? Thanks,Rob
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