Re: Change vmnic of vMotion Service
Hi Rahul Thanks for your answer. "in case if you want to use same IP for all communication. just enable vmotion and FT on same vswitch 0 same port Group." Yes, exactly this is my situation.Should I...
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If I get everything correct then what u need is to setup all traffic from only those two nics and One vmkernal switch containing 2 port groups of different subnet, like you have in other DC location....
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Or create port group first and have ip marked from network. Once done uncheck vmotion from existing and Mark on new one, Coz removing cables etc can be done afterwards too.
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vSwitch Policy Settings and kernel port group policy
Hi. Here you can see the policy setting on the vSwitch itself.The lower picture is the policy setting for the Management network.What happens when nothing is select and it's greyed out, does it inherit...
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Thanks larsonm So there is no reason to have "Link Status Only" checked for the management port group since it doesn't have a different value then the vSwitch ?Just to be sure since this will settle a...
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TCP/IP Stacks at the VMkernel Level in vSphere 6.0
vSphere 6.0 introduces TCP/IP Stacks at the VMkernel Level The documentation VMkernel Networking Layer states:Provisioning trafficHandles the data that is transferred for virtual machine cold...
View ArticleRe: Import of vSphere Distributed Switch with "Preserve original distributed...
I have recently used this feature, and it worked perfectly for me: I had to rebuild my vCenter (hostname naming convention requirement changed after initial deployment). I exported my dvs config, I...
View Articleuse Traffic filtering on dvs for "allow this, drop the rest" ACL?
I'm trying to implement a "allow selected traffic, drop the rest" ACL rule. However, after setting up multiple ALLOW rules on my dvs port group for the traffic that should be allowed, I add the last...
View ArticleImproving MS Windows 2008 R2 10 GB Network Speed Virtual Machine Question
VMware ESXi 5.5 EnterpriseVMhost Server: Dell PowerEdge R730 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2687W @ 3.10GHz with 767.91 GB memory.vSwitch1 (Local with no vmnic assigned)Virtual Machines: 2 MS Windows 2008 R2 with...
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Re: use Traffic filtering on dvs for "allow this, drop the rest" ACL?
After testing some scenario's, it's clear that matching Allow rules before a catch all Drop rule work as expected, they allow the traffic. The one thing that I forgot to allow in my case is ARP. I'll...
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Stuck in Nexus 1000v deployment
Hello, Colleagues!Please give me some advice for the problem that I currently have.I am trying to deploy Cisco Nexus 1000v in our infrastructure.Our infrastructure includes 5 ESXi 5.1 hosts in...
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Re: Improving MS Windows 2008 R2 10 GB Network Speed Virtual Machine Question
1. Are you using the vmxnet3 virtual NIC?2. Make sure you use the latest VMware Tools that include the latest NIC driver:http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/index.html3. This is the...
View ArticleRe: Adding Static route on ESXi 5.5!
@cweinhold: Your solution is exactly what I was looking for. I'm dealing with routed NFS in my scenario. I've created an NFS vmkernel (vmk1) at 10.10.20.10. The ESXi management vmkernel (vmk0) is...
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Re: Adding Static route on ESXi 5.5!
Hmmm. Looks like the stack feature doesn't actually work. Have you gotten it to work? TCP/IP Stack Configuration issue in vSphere 6 | VIRTUALIZATION BLOG Ian
View ArticleRe: Unable to reach any VMs on new server, Dswitch or standard.
I've been away for an extended amount of time, and finally had a chance to look into this a few days ago. I was able to figure it out with a well rested mind. The problem was two-fold: the Brocade was...
View ArticleRe: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Hi There, I have bought this motherboard too in order to use VMware ESXi.Any news about the compatibility of this chipset? Thank you.
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Network design question for upcoming P2V of SQL server with iSCSI direct...
Greetings, We're going to be performing a P2V of our current physical server with 3 directly attached iSCSI volumes in its current setup. The VM will have the same 3 directly connected iSCSI volumes....
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Penalty for increase vswitch ports number
Hi, Actually we have 4 ESXi in a cluster, it has 2 physical adapter associate to a vswitch with 128 ports. We need increase to 256 ports all ESXi, but we have a doubt:- What is the penalty we would...
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