Passing vlan 1 through tagged interfaces from Vmware
I have 2 BNT switches which connect to Blades with ESXi 5.5 U2 installed. I have created number of vlans for the blades and can pass all of them from the ESXi to BNT switches except for vlan 1.On the...
View ArticleVM stops pinging after I tag the network
I have a VM that is a member of a network in vsphere 5.5 and the VLAN the network is for is the native network VLAN however if I tag the network with the VLAN ID then the VM will stop pinging. Once I...
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Hi, so the switch port of your physical switched has the VLAN configured as native? Then this isn't strange at all, but just the way it's supposed to work. With a native vlan configured, you mustn't...
View ArticleRe: Passing vlan 1 through tagged interfaces from Vmware
I think I have had this issue before on IBM Blades with BNT modules where the PVID VLAN did not work. As far as I remember I changed the PVID to a VLAN I was not trunking to the ESXi hosts. Try...
View ArticleRe: Passing vlan 1 through tagged interfaces from Vmware
Yep it works. switchport trunk native vlan 3997 3997 is a vlan I don't use. Once I did the change I could pass vlan 1 traffic as well through the BNT switch. It does not work as long as the pvid is 1,...
View ArticleNew ESXi 5.5 install, setup connection to outside network
We have just purchased a Dell server with ESXi 5.5 preinstalled to put in our test environment alongside our older ESXi 5.1 machine. I am trying to get the 5.5 machine setup for networking but am...
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Where are you getting the term "outside network"? Is this just a label someone used on Virtual Machine Port Group on your 5.1 host? If you can use the client to get to the Host (the 5.5 esxi box) then...
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I didn't realize 'outside network' was a locally configured name, thanks for pointing that out. Doing some more testing now, I think I may have it figured out. regards, Richard
View ArticleRe: New ESXi 5.5 install, setup connection to outside network
There are 2 network adapters on the vm created from ovf, Network adapter 1 is set to VM Network,, network adapter 2 is set to VM Network 2. I verified my configurations in the vm (CentOS 6.7) and found...
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Why the two network adapters? Did you manually configure them both? The internet issue just might be duplicate or conflicting default gateways.
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Re: New ESXi 5.5 install, setup connection to outside network
It's all set now. I had to reconfigure the eth1 in the vm. ESXi was fine. Thanks for all the help! regards, Richard
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esxi host only has two vnics - how to setup vMotion with vSS and vDS
I have a Madelle that I dont have enough knowledge to sort out. I have an esxi host, that only has two physical Network adapters. (vmnic) I have set up the one vmnic on vSS for Network Management. (As...
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Re: esxi host only has two vnics - how to setup vMotion with vSS and vDS
A setup without redundancy is not a good idea, then I will recommend you create a single virtual switch (vSS or vDS) using both links. About what type of virtual switch create, if your license allow,...
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VM Keeps Losing Network
Have a Win2k12 server that is on a separate VLAN. This is a camera server and from time to time they will call me and say that the cameras are down. Look at the server and there is NO IP address....
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Re: Promiscuous mode, separated portgroup (vlan) - Security
After hours and hours of fiddling around with different scenarios, i thing CARP is not reallyusable in a VM. Because the real interface (em, vmx) is always in promiscuous modewhen using CARP, every...
View ArticleImplmenting VLANs in VMWare for the first time
So we've had VMware in place for a while now, but our network has been a sore spot. We are now working to remedy that. We have slowly begun to VLAN off parts of our network, which previously all ran in...
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If what you want achieve is just use the virtual machine with DHCP (on VLAN1) issuing IP address to the Guest network, you can just create a new scope for this new subnet and configure the IP Helper...
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Re: Implmenting VLANs in VMWare for the first time
Ok, I see what you are saying here. But my concern is I want the DHCP server to only give out the new range of addresses to the guests only, and my thinking was I needed to isolate on Virtual interface...
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Re: Implmenting VLANs in VMWare for the first time
Hi, all you need is to set an IP helper address for the new VLAN and a corresponding DHCP scope on your DHCP. You DHCP doesn't need an interface in the new VLAN. It's important that your switch...
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Re: Promiscuous mode, separated portgroup (vlan) - Security
At least in my scenario, the main issue with CARP was related to the physical switch andthe "carppeer x.x.x.x" option. When setting a CARP peer, the physical switch is only awareof the shared CARP mac...
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