Vmware's DVS port mirroring does not capture vlan tags
Hi i have a very specific use case which requires my monitoring tool to receive captured data including vlan headers i've tried several different methods of VDS port mirroring and im getting mixed...
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i've found the root cuause of the issue, it has to do with the virtual nic type.. VMXNET3 strips vlan tags and E1000 doesn't all port mirroring option show vlan tags (evne when pinging inside the...
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Migrate Problem From VDS to NK1 on vsphere 6
Hii install Nexus 1000V last Version and migrate the VM from new Swtich and tow Cluster i have when the migrate the vm from first cluster to andother one that NK1 install i see this error :Currently...
View ArticleRe: Prioritizing voice traffic inside the vDS switch for Lync/Skype/sip/dscp...
Anyone else want to take a stab at this one?
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Watch some web-based training, such as a PluralSight course. It's the least painful way to start. There are some great books out there, such as Mastering VMware vSphere 6 by if you like to read. And...
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vmkernel ports on vDS are not shown green
Hi guys! We are performing migration our hosts from standard vSwitches to vDS. Everything looks good. Even after migration of pNICs and vmKernel ports connectivity is working normal. So both types of...
View ArticleRe: cisco discovery protocol
Guys! Are you sure that vSS doesn't support CDP? In our infrastructure of ESXi hosts 5.1 cdp worked correctly. I haven't check this on ESXi 6 but I clearly remember that on vmware ICM courses v6 quite...
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Re: Migrate Problem From VDS to NK1 on vsphere 6
Dude, are you sure that you need 1000v? We also wanted to deploy it in our infrastructure. Moreover I successfully installed it in test environment and tested it. But later we realized that it's no...
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ESXi pfSense Network Setup Issue
Hey guys, I've been beating my head in for 2 days over this and I cannot get it to work. I'm fairly experienced with vmware and networking. However this has me stumped. I've followed every tutorial...
View ArticleNetwork configuration on physical switch side.
If i have a esxi host that will host Vm´s on vlan 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc etc, what configuration do i need on the physical port on the switch side, that this esxi host connects ? Does it need to be a...
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Re: Network configuration on physical switch side.
Yes, in order to run VM's in different VLANs, configure the port as a trunk port (for Cisco), or tagged port (for other switches).see Sample configuration of virtual switch VLAN tagging (VST Mode)...
View ArticleRe: ESXi pfSense Network Setup Issue
Do you have your WAN interface in PFSENSE set to DHCP? Also are you not tagging any of your traffic anywhere. I have a similar setup and it is working fine, however I tag all my VMWare traffic and...
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Best networking setup for a two server home test lab
I am building a test lab ( I want to learn more about VSphere/ESXi, Vmotion etc.. ) and am putting my own linux servers etc…. on it.I have two ESXi servers, both with only one NIC in them on a...
View ArticleRe: Best networking setup for a two server home test lab
It really comes down to what can your switch do, can you tag your L2 traffic on your switch.? In my lab I have 3 hosts, only two nics in each, and I separate traffic with various VLANs. Here would be...
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implication of turning off network i/o control
Somebody enabled network I/O control on one of our production distributed switches. We don't use network I/O control. I was wondering what the implications are for disabling it now that it has been...
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Re: implication of turning off network i/o control
Disabling this feature will not cause an outage. Also you mention that some vDPG's have LBT enabled, this has no real relation to the NIOC just to be clear. The only time really this feature being...
View ArticleUnable to login to vm machine
Hi i had converted a physical machine to virtual, but after converting when i am logging to the server it shows error saying:- There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon...
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You will need to use the local account to be able to login on the machine... due the conversion, you may lost your IP configuration and this explain why no logon servers are reachable.
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Re: Unable to login to vm machine
Hi,Its look like while conversion you might he given some new/different name to your server because of which the server is out of domain now. You need to login into server with Local credentials and...
View ArticlePort mirroring legacy using Uplink as destination interface
Hi, would to implement the following scenario: each ESXI host we have is connected to a switch, the switch is connected to a physical sniffing tool we have a DVS with several different port groups...
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