Re: Considerations NFS vmk ports when moving a HOst from 1 Distributed switch...
thanks very much for the response ... very useful. I have one further question if i may ... i hope it makes sense ;-) I currently have 6 Hosts in a cluster attached to dvswitch0 which is providing...
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Configuring virtual network - backup VM using separate network
I'm a little out of my depth and would like some advice. My goal is to backup my virtual machines on Host 1 to Host 2 using a different network to my public facing network. On Host 1 I have 3 VMs on...
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thats awesome ... thanks so much for the info. just what i was looking for ;-)
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Re: Considerations NFS vmk ports when moving a HOst from 1 Distributed switch...
if i have an esx host attached to dvswitch0 with vmotion pg's configured for x.x.144.x subnet, and another esx host on dvswitch1 with vmotion pg's configured for x.x.144.x subnet .... can i vmotion...
View ArticlevDS and physical network configuration
Hello, we are migrating our vsphere network configuration from vStandard to vDistributed Switch and during our tests we are facing some configuration issues and at least some "best practice" problems....
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Teamed NIC network not failing over
We've been running ESXi Ent/Plus with our HP DL380/580 servers for a few years now and typically for network resilience and traffic performance we configure either vSwitch or Distributed vSwitch in our...
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The best way forward for you will be to configure each port fasting the esxi as portfast trunk, so that each port carries all the required VLANs and this should work fine with "Route based on...
View ArticleProduction Network layout review
Could I please have one of the Gurus once over this vSwitch, Port Group and VLAN layout I have finalized for my production network and either bless it or pick it apart. I would like to go live with...
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we do testing of removing network cable from either NIC from the team and things work find there's fail over in the vSwitch due to the teamed NICs and minimal ping packet drop.Yes, if a link goes...
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Can you share some additional details about your physical network interfaces : They are four single port NIC, one quad port or two dual port ?
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I'd suggest you consider two separate/additional network adapters for vMotion, as vMotion can easily saturate the network links, and therefore cause issues with the VMs running on vSwitch0....
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I'd be happy to, thank you for the help! These two hosts are both identical DL360p Gen8 Servers with one quad port NIC onboard.I am running Essentials PlusI do have the iSCSI adapters as active and...
View ArticleUnable to migrate Vsphere Standard Switch to Distrbuted Switch.
Hi all, We have HP Blades and we are trying to add two new Cisco UCS servers to the same cluster in which We have HP BL460 Blades. VCenter is 5.5 U1 and ESXi is 5.0 U2. We are adding ESXi in...
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How many physical NICs do you have in each standard and distributed switch ? Where is the VMkernel management interface ? And if management interface is on standard switch, let us know the teaming...
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Hi Richardson, Thanks for the reply. Both Standard and Distributed Switch has two Uplinks. Currently, Vmkernel mgmt interface on Standard switch. Team setting for the mgmt port group is "Route based...
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The distributed port group to where you're migrating the management interface is already configured with appropriated VLAN (including on physical switch) ?
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Yes, it is configured with same Mgmt Vlan.. One of the DVuplinks to which I have migrated the mgmt Port shows port group but there are no uplinks to the port group
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Since you're using Route Based on IP Hash, let me ask you if you're using Port Channel on physical switch and if yes, there is a different port channel for each switch ?
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Hi Richardson, I was able to migrate the mgmt interface from Standard switch to Distributed switch. I have down below steps. 1) Remove the Nic(vmnic0) from Standard switch and assign the Nic to the...
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I am unclear on why the default gateway was not reachable when second nic was connected to standard switch.?The problem may be realted to my last question... if you're using Route Based on IP Hash the...
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