Re: Strange problem with some hosts and VMs
As I have understood you right you have vSwitch0 with two physical nics (vmnic0 and vmnic1, as an example). You have set up the management with one active and one standby (vmnic0 active and vmnic1...
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HI, I need to trunk vlans on vSS.Say there are three vlans 10,20 and 30.I am able to create trunk on uplink Physical switch,but not able to find out if how this has to be done on vSS. Regards,Sushil
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To configure VLAN Tagging, you can set a VLAN on a PortGroup.Let say you want to have VM1 to be in VLAN 10, VM2 to be in VLAN 20, and VM3 to be in VLAN3.Then you can create 3 PortGroups each with...
View ArticleRe: Problem bridging two vmxnet3
Hello, It does sound odd, what version is the CentOS vmxnet driver? Is this from CentOS or via VMware Tools? If not via VMware Tools, use the VMware Tools version. If that does not work then yes open a...
View ArticleRe: Proper way to network HP StoreVirtual VSAs??
Hello, Check out this post on installing and configuring the VSA, it goes through the networking and why pretty throroughly: vSphere Upgrade Saga: Installing HP StoreVirtual 11.0 | AstroArch...
View ArticleRe: Changing Management IP/Gateway for the ESXi host
Hello, Using the current management approach, such as vCenter .NET or Web Client, create a vSwitch that has an uplink of vmnic0. Once you have that created, you can then migrate your management network...
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I will have to read this many/several times…We will use a two-host cluster with one VSA VM on each host’s local storage…I’ve been told the FOM should be on different storage so it will go into shared...
View ArticleRe: X520-DA2 Compatibility Issue
Hello, You may want to try a different slot? If it is on a riser is the riser properly plugged in, etc. I would start to compare BIOS settings between a working a non-working host. Also, go to the CLI...
View ArticleRe: Proper way to network HP StoreVirtual VSAs??
Hello, It will work even with VSS's it is not a vSwitch thing really.... I have 2 nodes w/local storage as you suggest. I have a portgoup for iSCSI and portgroup for management on different vSwitches...
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From what you are saying it sounds like I can do something similar to this diagram, where vSwitch1 would be for the VSA:This is my main 'frame of reference,' it's another system that uses an HP MSA...
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Hello, I am confused by the names, but yes you can do something similar. vSwitch1--- iSCSI VSA PG--- iSCSI VMK PG Best regards,Edward L. HaletkyVMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009,...
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Yes, the names of things in vSwitch1 are confusing but that’s what I was given by the person who helped me…I think it was done to have vNIC redundancy etc., I don’t know…it’s always “just worked” since...
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Hello, Well I just use 1 pNIC for both but I use 10G. But yes, 1 to each if you have 1G is best.you can setup failover to fail one over to the other just in case however, and I would with 2 pNICS. Just...
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Thank you for mentioning failover.I think that is why our vSwitch is set up the way it is...I recall HP saying the pNICs can't be teamed but it doesn't say you can't have anything set for failover, I...
View ArticleRe: X520-DA2 Compatibility Issue
Maybe try it this way You must disabled option in BIOS "Default Memory Mapped IO above 4 GB" And also other riser cardhttp://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-033701.htm
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 - Nexus 1000v port blocked by admin
A very common reason for this is you accidentally patch your ESX host with the update manager with a newer version than the 1K has installed. Your best bet is to run this command on an ESX server...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 - Nexus 1000v port blocked by admin
FYI - this post is 2 years old. Here's a more current one from yesterday:Re: Failed to connect virtual device ethernet0.
View ArticleRe: X520-DA2 Compatibility Issue
Here's a more recent ixgbe (3.21.4) driver you could try:https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI55-INTEL-IXGBE-3214&productId=353 Run the following on the ESXi shell and post...
View ArticleRe: DVUplinks settings
Richardson, On my Vcenter, it's not possible to select uplink teaming to overrides.Had you seen this problem before ? Is it a right problem ? Thanks
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This happen because you selected the Uplink Port Group settings... you need select the Distributed Port Group settings to be able to override the configuration.
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