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Help! Redundant Switches - To Stack or Not?
We would like any advice on "best practices" for how to setup redundant physical switches that connect our ESXi host(s) to a NFS NAS via 10GbE. Please see the two attached diagrams. We cannot decide...
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Suggestions for setting up Traffic Filtering and Marking Policy
Hi, We want to configure some locks, but we are unsure what the best setting would be. Example: Network LAN Datacenter: 192.168.1.1 (Public NAT Routing)Network A: 10.10.1.0 - VMware Host ServersNetwork...
View ArticleNetworking Suggestions?
Any suggestions on Networking: Mgmt Ntwk, VM Ntwk and vMotion. New deployment:3 hosts with 4 x 10Gb NICs and approximately 30 to 40 Guest VMs. Team x 2 NICs vSwitch0 | Mgmt and VM Ntwk (Team...
View Articleethernet card config
I have 4x10 GB ethernet cards and I want to use them as 40 GB. how should I configure ? vcenter 6.5
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vSwitch & DVS config
Looking at moving to DVS from standard vSwitch but i am wanting to continue to use vSwitch for vMotion/Management then all the Virtual machine traffic connect to the DVS. I remember this used to be...
View ArticleToo many connections to VM, high ping, how to increase bandwidth?
Good day sirs!We have a bottleneck with RDS server.Due to overload esxi host, we can not create cluster for now.There is more than 100 connections per VM.So the problem is very high ping latency to it:...
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Unable to connect VM through vSwitch
Hi, I'm using ESXi version 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 14320388)I have a problem I've never encountered before:I created 2 more vSwitches to have 3 subnets (LAN, DMZ and WAN)LAN and WAN are not a problem,...
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Team ESXi 6.5 NICs with HPE 1820 and 1910 switches....
Hi, I'm struggling to get NIC teaming (aggregating) between a ESXi 6.5 host and HPE switches. Here are my VSwitch settings (interfaces inherit their settings from vswitch) Link discovery, mode:...
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ESXi Network design questions and best practice
Hi, Am currently revising how best to assign network traffic for Management/vMotion/vSAN/VM Traffic when having 6x NIC scenario with same 10GB/s uplink speed By default the ESXi Management gets...
View ArticleStandard vSwitch security settings changes
Will the Standard vSwitch security settings changes on ESXi 6.0 host will have impact on VM's network running on the host.
View Articlevlan or 2 vmnic
hi,i have on host vsw1 with vmkernel and monitor traffic and vsw2 with i/o data traffic.when i create a VM in order that this VM to be used by vmotion and to be monitored is necessary,if i use an vmnic...
View ArticleMore than one VDS in vcenter for a single ESXi
We are planning to create two distributed switches in the same vcenter. First two ports of an ESXi server belong to uplink of one VDS Third and fourth ports of the same ESXi server belong to...
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monitor
hi,if i like to monitor VMs on esxi with zabbix or any other monitoring tool we use the ip of monitor port.this port work over an uplink vmnic-bonding is better that does not has any ip.the ip are only...
View ArticleESXi Hosts unable to ping gateway
Hi All, I have a setup that worked until I moved the servers to a different physical location. The setup is; 2 Dell poweredge r340s, ESXi 6.7. - Each connected to our office network via an unmanaged...
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vDS across two sites
Hey everyone, sorry for the nooby questions! We have the need to deploy vDSs. We have a couple of hosts on one site and a couple on another, with multiple 10gb ports between physical sites, including...
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Hardware address mismatch with VMXNET3 network adaptor in linux machine
Hi, If I add more than 3 VMXNET3 network adaptors to linux machine, I am seeing hardware address mismatch between virtual network adaptor and interface inside linux machine. Is this a know issue or any...
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Want to set up multiple VLANS between Switch and ESXi 6.7U3
Struggling to get VLANs to work. I have a couple of different LAB environments I want to set up on a singlw ESXi server. I have set up the following:Assigned uplinks 1,2,3 for use for LABSHere are the...
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MAC adresses in VMVware products: Seeking for an overview of ranges
From different sources I read contradicting information, so I would like someone to clearify:1. What range(s) do VMWare products generate MAC adresses in? Is there a difference between different...
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Redundant Switches with NFS - Even Possible?
I am having a difficult time understanding how to setup 100% redundant networks from an ESXi host to multiple NFS storage devices. Please see the attached image for this question. Goal: Be able to...
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Enabled vDS health check, Teaming & Failover showing as ? unknown
Hello, I've enabled the vDS health check option, however the "Teaming & Failover" showing as "? unknown" and I can't seem to find much info on this, can anyone advise? Thanks
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