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Re: Dell R710 with Intel 82599 10 Gigabit can't get to 10Gb
Hi, I am planning to setup the exact same hardware setup, same servers, same NIC's and same switches. Are you still experiencing problems? Thanks Zaid Bester
View ArticleHow to avoid vMotion when i have lan connectivity problems
Hello, From my experience vm can do vmotion to another host as long he has vmotion network. Is there any way to avoid vm to do vmotion to another host in the cluster if the candidate host have...
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i have standart switch and i have 8 esxi 6.0 hosts. now i want to vmware distributed switch but i dont know how to convert all to vmware distributed switch. is it possible ?
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Re: distributed switch
Hi there, You can't convert a vSwitch to a dvSwitch, you will need to create your dvSwitches and create distributed port groups to match your existing port groups before you migrate (which you can do...
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i have 6 hosts esxi 6 and 4x10 gbit nic. now i want to create distributed switch . 2x10 gbit nic for managemet and vm network they have vlan . 2x10 gbit nic for vmotion netowrk. how to create...
View ArticleRe: distributed switch desing
Hi,. Creating vDS is easy and there is lot of information "how to" in the internet. https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1010557 Show Me How: Creating Distributed Switches in vSphere 5.5 - YouTube Back To Basics:...
View ArticleRe: How to avoid vMotion when i have lan connectivity problems
Not with the current release (vSphere 6.0.x). There has been talk about doing a network health check on the virtual machine port groups as part of the VMCP (Virtual Machine Component Protection). It...
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Re: How to avoid vMotion when i have lan connectivity problems
Hi Chris, Thank for your replay. I read little about VCMP and this for data store. I need it to check the internet access is it suitable ?RegardsRafi
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dvSwitch Port based network traffic "Peak Bandwidth" setting
I have a requirement to have an absolute limit of 1Gbps for VMs running on a dvSwitch with 10Gbps uplinks. I need to prevent micro bursts of greater than 1Gbps in the sample window. How does peak...
View ArticleRe: vCenter and vmkernel traffic
TheVMinator Not required to be on the same VLAN. Regards Basavaraj.Navalgund banavalg@yahoo.com
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Re: vCenter and vmkernel traffic
Although there are several options, generally I see vCenter, DB, ESXi host (and other management servers) on the same subnet/VLAN. Separate subnets/VLANs are then used for vMotion, storage (iSCSI/NFS),...
View ArticleConfiguring Fiber Channel card on esx 5.1 host
Hi to All,I have three esxi 5.1 hosts. I have new 2 port 8G Fiber Channel cards installed in each and FC cables from the card port going to the fiber switch.This is my first time working with FC cards...
View ArticleRe: Configuring Fiber Channel card on esx 5.1 host
From ESXi perspective you should do nothing... but depending of your SAN infrastructure, you should make zoning in switch and configure your storage array with LUN masking.
View ArticleRe: Configuring Fiber Channel card on esx 5.1 host
we have a new EMC VNX physically installed. EMC tech will be configuring the unit from remote access. We don't do any of the switch config, that is on EMC to do. So with what we have done so far,...
View ArticleRe: Configuring Fiber Channel card on esx 5.1 host
Just ask the EMC tech to do the zoning on the SAN switch and the LUN masking and map the volumes to your hosts on the storage side... after the volumes has be presented, just go to your ESXi, rescan...
View ArticleVM ware
HI everyone I am looking to start the VMware. Kindly anyone suggest where to start the basics things and what I need read. Note : I am having 3 years exp in networking thanks udayamoorthy
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VMXNET3 Backup NIC stop pinging\responding on RedHat Linux 6 x64
Hi All, I have Virtual environment with ESXi 5.5 and using multiple guest VM with different OS(WIndows, Unix, etc) now a days we are facing an issue with RedHat Linux 6 x64. We are using 2 VMXNET3 NICs...
View ArticlePrioritizing voice traffic inside the vDS switch for Lync/Skype/sip/dscp...
Dear Experts! I'm posting this today because I have looked and failed to find any content on this subject. Within ESXi 6.0 and above we have now been blessed with the feature of marking/tagging...
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Re: Prioritizing voice traffic inside the vDS switch for Lync/Skype/sip/dscp...
Action: TAG will let you do what you want to do in vDS. I have taken screenshot from version 5.5 of vSphere (vDS). if you refer following networking guide page 110, you get step by step...
View ArticleRe: Prioritizing voice traffic inside the vDS switch for Lync/Skype/sip/dscp...
Let me also add following note vDS is only available via vCenter server. so if you are trying to find traffic filtering or tagging feature in a standalone ESXi host, you will only see Standard Switches...
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