Re: Migrate ESXi from on Distributes Switch to another
I forgot to mention, that we are using NSX and VSAN, and all is flowing through the 4 LACP uplinks. so in what order do i migrate the host from one dvs to another dvs?
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It's a very complex procedure because of NSX & VSAN existence can prevent you to do that. VMware always ecommends that plan and prepare your vSphere Distributed Switches before installing NSX for...
View Articlevirtual machine port ID and port-groups
Hi everybody,Let say we have a VM which is connected to vSW1 on ESXI, using port-groups VM-1, VM-2 Does vSW still assign single Virtual machine port ID to VM or it will assign two virtual machine...
View ArticleCan we connect two Standard VSW within a same ESXi host?
Hi everyone,Is it possible to connect two standard VSW together within same ESXi Host? Thanks and have a good weekend!!
View ArticleRe: Can we connect two Standard VSW within a same ESXi host?
No, not without a router (VM) in between them.
View ArticleRe: Can we connect two Standard VSW within a same ESXi host?
Based on the design it's not possible to connect virtual switches directly to each other and because of that, there is no need to STP in the vSwitch. But if you have a VM with two vNIC, by connecting...
View ArticleVirtual Network Design recommendations
I'm looking for some general recommendation to help design virtual network for the below spec / requirements and hoping you can share your thoughts. 3 host VSAN cluster (may be another one later to be...
View ArticleRe: Can we connect two Standard VSW within a same ESXi host?
Moderator note: Moved to vSphere vNetwork
View ArticleRemove 2 uplink from dvs with LACP
We have 3 ESXi host in a cluster. Each host have 4 uplinks and all 4 are bundled to one LACP, on a dvs. Management, vmotion, vxlan and vsan all runs through the LACP uplink. I want to remove vsan form...
View ArticlePort Mirror Scenario
Hi there, first of all: I dont know if i am at the right place here. If this is not the right place to ask this question than i am really sorry My Scenario is the following:I got one virtual DNS...
View ArticleAttempted to create a distributed switch and now lost all connections
Hi,Attempted to create a distributed switch from the vsphere gui. Something obviously didn't work and now have lost gui access to vsphere and two esxi hosts.Can ssh to one of the esxi hosts and trying...
View ArticlePlease help: network failover feature of ESXi
Hi all, We're going to setup a cluster using v6.7 with some ESXi server (6 NICs per server). We hope there will be high availability in network connection. After reading manual, seems we can do in...
View ArticleDHCP - ip configuration could not be reserved (no available address timeout...
Using ESXi6.7 - I have two guests A and B - Guest A is a transparent bridge, it passes traffic, it also has a management port that i can assign using DHCP (or not) 1/ If i assign a port group to...
View ArticleVM with multiple vCPU on an ESXi
Hi everyone,Please consider the following examples: Example#1Single ESXi with 8 logical CPU , ESXi host is hosting single VM, this VM has a single vCPU.Currently VM's vCPU is running at 98%...
View ArticleReservation , Limit, Shares question
Hi everybody,I am trying to understand Reservation for VM. Please consider the following examples: 1)Let's say we have Memory Reservation for a VM, but VM is not using that Memory Reservation...
View ArticleRe: Reservation , Limit, Shares question
No to both questions.The ESXi host will not use the reserved resources for other VMs, otherwise a reservation wouldn't make much sense, would it?André
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