vSwitch setup for performance
Currently I have two esxi hosts. Each has two nics connected to a vswitch for all of our VMs. The VMs are spread across five VLANs that are tagged on the port groups and the two physical nics are trunk...
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Hi Is there a way to list out all the VLAN's that the physical networkcard on ESXi can see from the switch?esxcfg-vswitch -l only show defined VLAN's on the system. I know HPE Oneview has presented all...
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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...
View ArticlePort mirroring on vSwitch
Hello, I have this scenario: vSwitch0 -> vmnic0 --> physicalAppliance | |--> PortGroup0 | | | |--> VirtualMachine0 | | | |--> VirtualMachine1...
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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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Distributed Switch LACP
I am using an HPE Superdomes server / ESXi 6.0 u3 , VC 6.0 u3 I want to use vDS for LACP functionality Currently using mgmt 2 port service 4port(vSwitch1 2port / vSwitch2 2port) Can I use all 6 ports...
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ESXi vSphere 6.5 NIC Teaming
Hi, we would like to set up a single esxi host with 4 fNICs to work with nic teaming. Is it possible to connect e.g. fNIC3 and fNIC4 into Team (vSwitch - PortGroup VLAN tag). Then on a physical network...
View ArticlevDS qos
ESXi 6.0 u3 I want to set QoS on vDS After setting in vDS Do I have to configure the same on the physical switch? if not I set it only in vDS or physical switch?
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Uknown unicast flood in DVS
Wanted to understand Uknown unicast flood in DVS. Uknown unicast packets are sent out on first uplink even though it doesn't allow the VLANS of the packet. VM is tagging the packet with VLAN-A and...
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Setting up LAGs on multiple ESXi hosts
Hi All I'm not an absolute newbie in vmware, however I have used only standard vSwitches and failover link configuration.Now I'm trying deploy much more complicated configuration. I have installed 5...
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LACP or Enhanced LACP and IP Hash Load Balance 4 uplinks speed
hi guys I have a recent doubt that might be simple but this will help me to clarify I have this environment and I am sure you can not get more than 1GB link speed - transfer rate abot 100MBps to...
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Link Aggregation - Alcatel Lucent
Need help configuring Link aggregation between an ESXI 6.0 host and an Alcatel- Lucent OS6450-P48 switch. What I have done. ESXI Host:Vswitch0Load balancing: Route Based on IP hashNetwork Failover...
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...
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Adding static route to non-routed subnet
Hi all, Following is the situation: We are using an ESXi host for demo purposes with direct-attached storage. To be able to create extra data-stores we have directly attached a NetApp system to serve...
View ArticleHostname of VCSA 5.5 showing IP Instead of FQDN
Hi,I am trying to upgrade vCenter from 5.5 to 6.5 using command line but during precheck my script is showing IP instead FQDN and below warning when I check hostname I see FQDN.I still no clue what is...
View Article10GbE and 1GbE mixed setup best practice
Hi there! Soon we'll finally have 10GbE with our new ESXi hosts and I'm wondering how I should set up the different vSS (and probably vDS next year after the planned upgrade) to get the best out of...
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The host is reporting errors in its attempts to provide vSphere HA support.
Hi, I recently upgraded vCenter and ESXI 5.5 to 6.5 and upgrade was successful. I deployed some new VMs on upgraded ESXI hosts but when I try to power on I am getting error "The host is reporting...
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