Re: How to set the MTU size for a physical function on a Intel X520
By any chance you found out the way to set it on the PF side?I seem to have the same problem and there is no info on this is at all anywhere Regards,Nirmal
View Articleesxi etherchannel
after a etherchannel has been confgured on the switch side, 1. does the vswitch/dvS needs to immeditaly be in a IP has load balancing policy immediately or can it stay on the default of load balncing...
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1. dvPortGroup needs to be configured with IP hash in order to maintain connectivity. Network connectivity will be lost until the change is made. 2. Route based on IP hash means that a hash value is...
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Re: Penalty for increase vswitch ports number
Increasing the port count on the switch will take away from the remaining port count on the host, which is 4096 in vSphere 5.5, or on the switch (60,000 for a vDS). Depending on the version of ESXi,...
View ArticleRe: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Still working on it! (I did meet Intel folks at VMworld 2015, and am keeping in touch)
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
While we wait for proper ESXi 6.x support, a workaround for me is to use VT-d, but I realize that approach has drawbacks, including disabling vMotion.I then assign one or two 10GbE interface(s) to a VM...
View ArticleRe: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Same goes for ESXi 6.0 Update 1, still no built-in x552/x557 support, unfortunately.
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Just for sport, of course I tried (and failed) with some other similar Intel VIBs, oh well. Given the X552/X557 are in the same family as the 82598/82599 (according to the below site), you'd think they...
View ArticleRedundancy/Best pracites when setting up VM hosts
When we configure new VM hosts we run nic1 and 3 to switch 1 and then NIC 2 and 4 to switch 2. NIC /3 map to a private Vlan for VM guests and nic2/4 go to a Vlan for public IPs. I’ve never taken a VM...
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Re: Redundancy/Best pracites when setting up VM hosts
With your design, you already achieve redundancy at vmnic level and traffic isolation... and depending on how your VMs demands network traffic your design should works without problem. But if for...
View Articlehost vmnic IP ranges
question concerning the IP ranges found on the vmnics in my network.when i'm looking under each host -> configuration -> network adapter, I see a list of "observed IP ranges".where do these get...
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this is observed through the physical network where it is connected
View ArticleNetwork configuration
Hey Guys! Im fairly new to ESXi and vSphere.. (i started today).I managed to install ESXi and the second Ethernet Controller. Now i want to create a "Network" in vSphere. I got 4 Ethernet ports....
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thanks ranjna! when you say physical network, you are not referring to my dell 6220/6348's are you?those are only using layer 2 VLAN tagging...so I'm a little confused as to where the IP ranges are...
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Observed IP Range means the list of IP addresses subnets a ESX host can see and their VLAN IDs. ESX host gets this information from the switch to which it is connected. Observed IP range is picked up...
View ArticleRe: Network configuration
Welcome to the Community, depending on your physical network infrastructur's capabilities, this can be achieved using either a vSwitch with multiple VLANs, or by simply creating multiple vSwitches with...
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Gotcha ranjna - I was just wondering where layer 3 IP info was coming from.Thanks for your help!
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Re: When will Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T be...
Adding twitter plea for help to the mix:Paul Braren on Twitter: "@IntelSupport When will X552/X557 drivers for @VMware arrive for those sweet 10GbE equippped Xe…
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Disable redundancy in a vSwitch
Hello folks, I have one single ESXi Host with vSphere web installed and this particular host has got 4 NICs in total.NIC configuration is as follows:vmnic0 - LAN (connected to a 100MiB Switch)vmnic1 -...
View ArticleRe: Disable redundancy in a vSwitch
From what I understand, the easiest way to archive your goal is to purchase a small Gigabit-Switch, to which you then connect vmnic0, vmnic1, your computer as well as your 100MBit switch. André
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