Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
There has been support for Linux for 2 driver releases now. ixgbe 4.0.3 (April 15 release) and now ixgbe 4.1.1 (June 17). For whatever reason, neither version has made it into a VIB driver package. The...
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Fully concur, VMware engineering, PLEASE update this driver w/in the ESXi codebase, really is a shame for us to not be able to drive adoption of this incredible platform due to a silly driver issue...
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One iscsi vmkernel shows "Last Active" after change
We're running 5.5 and we have standard vSwitches with separate multipathed vswitches for management, vmotion and iscsi. We swapped 2 vmnics on one of our hosts today by moving one from vmotion to iscsi...
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The issue prior to vSphere 6 was that routed vMotion required a Request for Product Qualification (RPQ, sometimes referred to as an RFQ) by VMware engineering.You can read more about the new features...
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Re: One iscsi vmkernel shows "Last Active" after change
Please review your portgroup vmnic configuration, you have need to have the uplink adapters in 1Active and 1Unused.
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Re: new to vmware, vsphere and vswitch networking
Hi Roland, you still around ? Regards,Noob
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> Isn't NIC teaming on the ESXI host level <--->physical switch = Ether-channel ?Yes...something still not clear?
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Hi Roland, > Can we do LACP between the vSwitch and the physical adapters then ?Yes, but as you see above only with vDS. On the other thing there is a common mis-conception here. You may do...
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> q1) I think i got confuse when you replied yes to the question on whether we can do LACP between vSwitch and physical adapters. I think you meant physical switch right ?I answered this...
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Hi Roland, Thanks for replying.On my physical setup, i will always team my 2 nic ports on the host to the switch. On the switch, it might have another etherchannel between itself and another switch. So...
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IGMP snooping option on vDS
I was looking at the documentation on the new IGMP snooping feature in version 6 of the distributed switch and it says the limits are 256 groups and 10 sources. Does anyone know what happens when you...
View ArticleRunning vMotion on DATA Network
Currently I have my ESXi hosts installed with 4 10GBit Fiber cards. I use 2 of them for my VM data traffic. And two of them for Vmotion traffic. I want to run my VMotion network over the 2 VM data...
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Re: Running vMotion on DATA Network
vMotion can (and will) indeed max out the available bandwidth. Anyway, I'm running such a configuration (with vMotion in a separate VLAN though) using distributed switches with Network I/O control...
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Re: Running vMotion on DATA Network
Hi, Why not to use trafic shaping on the vmotion portgroup? If your VM's max transfer is 2Gbits, then shape vmotion max traffic down to 6Gbits to be very safe. -0,02$
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Agreed, great little motherboard, but 10GbE support is sorely needed. See also Supermicro support for ESXi 6.0 listed here:Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Support | OS Compatibility...
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Yeah, they show it as compatible, and it is, as long as you get the 4 x 1Gbps version of the board, and not the 2 x 1Gbps + 2 x 10Gbps version. I'm sure someone is running around like a chicken with...
View ArticleDistributed switch, vmotion issue
Vcenter 6Issue was present on both esxi 5.5 and esxi 6.0We have come across an interesting issue when attempting to vmotion virtual machines between hosts. We have quite a few port groups each with its...
View ArticleRe: Running vMotion on DATA Network
Thank you everyone. Can vmotion really push upwards of 6gbit?? I think for now I will create my active vmotion port in my standby data port. So I can still free up fiber and not interfere. I ill will...
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
As Supermicro promised, to me (and to others, such as roberthenderson), they updated their compatibility table appropriately, just as these servers are becoming widely available (mine arrived last...
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