Re: Need help understanding with routing between networks and subnets.
Thanks. I have tried installing the 60 day trial Vyatta router but I can't get in using the default credentials. I says that it's supposed to be : UN : vyattaPW: vyatta Have you used it before? Thanks
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Take a look at this blog post: http://wojcieh.net/vyatta-router-running-on-vmware-workstation-part-1/ And don't forget to award points for helpful or correct answers.
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I managed to get it working. Thanks
View ArticleTeaming policy and "Failback"
I see that by default Failback is enabled on any new Port Group. Why would VMware do that? To me it seems you would never want to Failback in case a bad link suddenly comes back alive? I am missing...
View ArticleOverride policy on a Dvs Port Group
For the life of me I cannot figure this out, or else I am just completely missing it in the UI(web client). I have set an override policy on a port group for "Uplink Teaming" to Allowed. I *assumed*...
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Unless I missing something, you cannot set a different teaming configuration per host based since you're using vDS... the Override option that you allowed, means that you can have a different teaming...
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Thank you, I guess I completely misunderstand it.
View ArticleLimitations of ESXi 5.5/vSphere networking question
hey everyone.have hopefully a fairly easy and straightforward question that I need clarification on. Running the free version of ESXi 5.5.I have 5 physical NIC's in my server. My original plan was to...
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Hi anybody know what is the meaning of threshold mean?
what the meaning of threshold in IT world mean? always get confuse with that
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It's used in several ways. However, the most common use for a threshold is an upper limit of something, before things either need to be managed differently, or an impact (e.g. performance) may occur....
View ArticleRe: Limitations of ESXi 5.5/vSphere networking question
The free Hypervisor doesn't have any restrictions regarding networking, except for using a distributed switch which is only available with an Enterprise Plus license.Separating the storage network is...
View ArticleRe: Limitations of ESXi 5.5/vSphere networking question
Thanks Andre.That makes sense.I will do some testing within my lab with that. I appreciate it. TCS
View ArticleHealth Check the Physical Network
What is the best way to health check the physical network my ESXi hosts will run on prior to installation - via command line or via a free tool of some kind?
View ArticleRe: Teaming policy and "Failback"
Hello, This may be more historical than anything and then again architectural. Consider the case where you are sharing two networks on a pair of pNICs. For arguments sake we can call the first network...
View ArticleRe: Limitations of ESXi 5.5/vSphere networking question
Hello, You may have more networks than the 3 you mentioned that need to be considered: * Management* vMotion* Fault Tolerance (not available for free)* Storage* Production VMs In this case I would not...
View ArticleRe: Health Check the Physical Network
Hello, Could you explain what you are trying to accomplish? Would this be related to the proper port settings for ESXi, VLAN trunking, etc? Health check means so many different things a bit of...
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Not sure what exactly you want and how it makes much sense "prior to installation", but obviously you have the dvSwitch health check feature. If you only have standard vSwitches, then here is an ESXi...
View ArticledvSwitch free ports
I have a number of dvSwitch port groups that are running out of free ports. On ESXi 5.0, can the number of available ports be increased without downtime?Thanks!
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Take a look here: VMware KB: Increasing the maximum number of vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) ports designated for an ESXi 5.0/5.1 h…
View Articlemigrating from standard to distributed switch, how many should be created?
I am migrating my VMs from standard to distributed switches. Is there best practices for how many distributed switches you create? Should the vmotion traffic be on a seperate dvswitch? My plan was...
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