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Re: LACP or no LACP, that is the question
hi but doesnt lbt only uses one link until it gets up to 75% or more then uses the other on the same vswitch? and lacp will use both simultaneously? what would be better on lbt and lacp? 4-8 1gb links...
View ArticleLoad Based Teaming/NIOC and VDS Health Check
Is there any documentation out there, showing for use cases where LBT isn't a good idea for specific VMs etc? I am sure I read something somewhere and I am unable to find it now."As LBT moves flows...
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VDS 6.0 - Determine output NIC from LACP Hash/Algorithm
We are currently building a vSphere architecture based for networking side on VDS and LACP aggregates under vSphere 6.0. We are seeking a command/tips/whatever to determine the output NIC name choosed...
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Re: VDS 6.0 - Determine output NIC from LACP Hash/Algorithm
If there is, it's not documented anywhere. Unlike Cisco, which has the hash-result command. This article appears to be the most in-depth one covering VMware hash selection, and it only focuses on IP...
View ArticleMixed Hardware and Distributed Switch VDS
Hello, I have a cluster with varying hardware (rack mount servers), some DELL and some HP, with this comes a mixture in the number of physical network adapter each server has.Obviously this situation...
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Re: Mixed Hardware and Distributed Switch VDS
Hi, the physical nics are abstracted by the Uplink Adapters, you assign physical nics to the uplink adapters and then use these adapters to setup your failover policies and so on.
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Best Practice for Migrating dvSwitch to new vCenter?
I work in a rather "large" environment (>1000 hosts) and was wondering if anyone could provide some guidance on the best (most risk averse) way to migrate dvSwitches between vCenters. I had...
View ArticleUnable to reach any VMs on new server, Dswitch or standard.
I have a problem that I'm hoping it's simple for someone else to see. I've been working on this for a couple of days now. I have 3 R730s connected to 2x Brocade VDX 6720s in a VCS fabric. These are new...
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Re: Unable to reach any VMs on new server, Dswitch or standard.
WTFoxtrot,Can you show me some code from your VDX config, per se the interfaces switch ports connected to the VMware host servers? Maybe the port-channel configs from both VDX and Cisco, too. How are...
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Just for kicks, I decided to take a look at the release date of the Linux driver vs the release date of the VMWare driver for the same version. There was a 11 month spread between the two. That seems...
View ArticleRe: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Hi all, same problem here.VMware engineers, please add support for X552/X557-AT, the SuperMicro X10SDV-TLN4F motherboard is becoming very popular here too! Best regards Domenico
View ArticleRe: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
For what it's worth, I tried compiling the 4.1.1 drivers for 6.0 a month or so back and completely struck out. The 4.x driver looks to be a substantial rewrite because there are large changes to the...
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
It's good to hear that someone with the necessary skill set has tried this. Thanks for the input. It's unfortunate the driver is so different and isn't compiling as easy as one would hope. Hopefully...
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Re: Best Practice for Migrating dvSwitch to new vCenter?
Background:I've seen both approaches used in production environment - where the hosts/VMs are moved into a new vCenter, and where a dvSwitch is exported from one vCenter server in imported into a newly...
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Force Host Dropped Packets?
This may sound odd, but is there any way I can FORCE dropped packets at the HOST level? I am a QA tester for a software company and I need to be able to force packet loss so I can see if the VMware...
View ArticleMigrating DVS (dvSwitch) port groups between dvSwitches / Merging two...
Hi All,Due to legacy reasons (back-end network dependencies) I have multiple dvSwitches in my environment - I would like to merge two dvSwitches together, or migrate the dv port groups (approximately...
View ArticleRenaming portgroup network label causing VMs to disconnect
With 2 ESX hosts - I created two new standard switches on both and created portgroups. Default Network label provided was VM Network 3. I didnt bother to change it, as this is for a test set-up. I had...
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That is expected behavior.
View ArticleUplink / VMkernel port question?
I have someone requesting a separate physical connection to an ESXi 5.5 hosts for a specific application using a separate subnet. We are going to use vmnic0 which is currently free. I have created...
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Re: Uplink / VMkernel port question?
hibefore answer I think you should check the difference between vmkernel port group and virtual machine portgroup. Check this piece of official doc about it...
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