Re: Do I need to Join ESXI Hosts to the Windows domain
No, not at all. Joining ESXi hosts to a domain, may make sense if you want to have users access the hosts directly, but don't want to create local accounts, or everyone using the root account. André
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Re: Do I need to Join ESXI Hosts to the Windows domain
It depends, if you login through the vCenter (with a AD identity source configured) with your domain account you will manage your hosts without need to add them to domain. But, if you want login...
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Connecting MGMT to correct Port when using NPAR VMware
HiyaWe are presenting some of our NICs to VMware using NPAR.The physical NIC I'm concerned about is 10gb and will be split into 2 partitions.partition 1 20% traffic MGMT network (VLAN 5)partition 2 80%...
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Re: Connecting MGMT to correct Port when using NPAR VMware
Hi Mike,Yes you can change the Management VMkernel to use vmnic other than the vmnic0 from the DCUI VMware ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) Overview (vSOM) - YouTubeAccessing Direct Console...
View ArticleHA & Vmotion Traffic VMware
Hiya From what I've read HA & vMotion traffic only flows between the hosts. This traffic doesn't have to communicate with anything else. Therefore if you had 2 hosts you could send such traffic...
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You may connect two hosts with cross over cable and perform vmotion. Ensure you have proper settings on host and validate the connectivity accordingly Following post may give you some hint on it...
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Hiya, Can HA traffic also be setup in the same way? cheers Mike
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Re: HA & Vmotion Traffic VMware
Yes, just you have to check vmotion and HA in the vmkernel port group accordingly. Perform a test and check if it works fine after you complete the implementation.
View ArticleVMs on Different ESXi Hosts Can't Communicate With Each Other
Hello, I need little a bit help. We have six ESX Hosts 6.0 and there are about 250 vms running.These hosts are connected with two (Dell M100E) 10G netcard to the two Nexus, one for production, vmotion...
View ArticleRe: VMs on Different ESXi Hosts Can't Communicate With Each Other
Could you share your vSwitch/Distributed switch setup such as how many vSwitch, how many uplinks, what teaming policy are you using for the PortGroup ?
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Re: VMs on Different ESXi Hosts Can't Communicate With Each Other
We use standard vSwitchs for production, vmotion and management where is the problem. iSCSI is okay (DvSwitch).If you need more information let me know.You shoud also know that Dell's 1000e Blade's...
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vSphere VM Basic Networking questions......
Hello guys,I have a questions which is probably on the niveau of a DAU.... I have set up and ESXi 5.5 Host and installed vSphere on my desktop.I created some VMs and now i dont want to to use the...
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Re: vSphere VM Basic Networking questions......
Is there a firewall enabled - like Windows firewall? I think that will drop pings (maybe RDP also) by default which could hinder troubeshooting... Assume RDP is enabled / not locked down on the...
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Vsphere VST question
I have a test lab in which i have setup Vsphere VST. The lab contains 1 host with 2 physical nic's. On the Host I have setup 3 VM's. Physicl nic 1(vswitch 0) is part of the ESxi management n/w and...
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Are you running Layer 2 switch mode or Layer 3 routing mode on your SG300?I can see that you have interface vlan 10 ip address 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0and interface vlan 20 ip address 192.168.0.254...
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Re: Vsphere VST question
Hi I am running the SG 300 in Layer 3 modeI have set the default gateway for the 2 VLAN as followsVLAN 10 - includes VM 1,2 and 3 as - 192.168.1.250 - This is the LAN ip of the firewall VM3VLAN 20 -...
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Hi, that looks good to me.If VM-1 / VM-2 need to traverse to the other subnet, they will reach the gateway which is VM-3/firewall.I assume:- Routing in Firewall is enabled- Firewal ports has been...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere VST question
I can get my VM's connect to the internet while having the VLAN's removed and making the physical switch in L2 mode. However when i enable VLAN's for VM's in Esxi (VST) and make the physical switch...
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With VLAN enabled:1. try to do a traceroute from the VMs and see where the traceroute stops.2. from VM, test ping to firewall inside interface and outside interface3. from firewall, test ping to VM4....
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