5.5 ESXi host adapter / card configuration

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  Yes, you can take a look at the configIssue (http://vijava.sourceforge.net/vSphereAPIDoc/ver5/ReferenceGuide/vim.ManagedEntity.html#configIssue) for the object HostSystem connecting to vCenter, i.e. When this information appears. It contains a table of configuration problems and it is exposed in the API, which means that it can be accessed by using one of our SDKs including the vSphere SDK Perl

• Assess the VC with ESXi hosts

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• ESXI hosts 5-2 and the best way to configure vSwitch and Nic redundancy

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  Post edited by: TonyJK

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  If you want to only connect the USB dongle to a virtual machine, add a USB controller to the virtual computer is simpler. Once you have added a USB controller, turn on the virtual machine. Plug the dongle on the ESXi host. Open the page change the setting of this virtual machine, add a USB device and you should be able to find the dongle in the list. Save the settings and your virtual machine can now access the dongle.

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• script to find configuration of esxi host problems.

  Need a script to find if all configuration host on all issues the esxi host in the vCenter...

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  Hello, nareshunik-

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  ----       ---------------  ---------
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  myHost212                1          1
  

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  See attachment "... - nzwlg - stack - 1.png".

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• inter esxi host ipv6 multicast traffic are not detected by the destination VM

  Hello

  Warning, I do not have in-depth knowledge of vmware, so please excuse the bad wording, misconception and ignorance in the post below.

  The current topology is:

  

  Each esxi 4.1 update 3 (DL380 G8) host is to connect both layer 2 switch.

  on each host, the vswitch has two network cards configured as active/active, with the default NIC cluster approach (route based on the original virtual port code).

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  I don't know if this will really solve your problem, but it is worth trying to update the firmware of the NETWORK adapter and the driver.

  Looks like it's a HP NC 331FLR NIC (gen8 DL by default NETWORK 4 ports with the BCM5719 chip card).

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  HP Service Pack for ProLiant

  Or start the server in a live Linux of your choice and use the Linux binary update:

  http://www.HP.com/swpublishing/MTX-ec0e18db6a8e4d978b57aa95d1

  These will update the NIC 331FLR to the Boot Code version 1.37/NCSI 1.2.37.

  Then update the tg3 driver in ESXi with this set to 3.129d.v40.1 offline:

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