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• Add the second NETWORK card to vSwitch

  I'm working on trying to add to install a second NIC physical to the vswitch which is installed by default when ESXi. I use the code below, but when I run it, it disconnects in fact the main physical network card and of course, I then lose connection. I tried different varients of this and even finished by adding a port of vmk, which I didn't do. I just want to add the second network card as a standby card network.

  #Add second NIC to the virtual switch
  $nic = Get-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $currentHost -Name "vSwitch0"
  Set-VirtualSwitch -VirtualSwitch $nic -Nic vmnic1
  

  The cmdlet Set-VirtualSwitch accepts a string array as the value of the parameter - Nic. So you should be able to:

  #Add second NIC to the virtual switch
  $nic = Get-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $currentHost -Name "vSwitch0"
  Set-VirtualSwitch -VirtualSwitch $nic -Nic vmnic1,vmnic2
  

  Best regards, Robert

• virtual network card to the physical network mapping and default loadbalancing

  What Virtual Machine virtual network card is map physical NIC.

  For example.

  lets assume Vswitch1 on host1 esx dedicated for the network of the virtual machine (port group) and it has 6 cards network linked to it (vmnic1, vmnic2, vmnic0, vmnic3)

  Load policy (default) Balancing - from the originating virtual port (it balances only outbound traffic through all the nic assigned to vswitch1 right?)

  ESXi host1 <-Vswitch1 (the VM network) <---(vmnic 0-vmnic 3)

  Lets assume that esxi hosting 6 virtual machines and each virtual machine has two network cards configured.  Through some documents, come out of that when the virtual machine is running, it gets connected to the ports of availabe on virtual swicth. say, I turn on the virtual machine in the order VM1, VM2... VM6.

  Vmname virtual adapter port on virtual switch1 Mapping of the physical network adapter                        

  VM1 eth0, eth1 1.2 which mappeed of the physical NIC to eth0, eth1?

  VM2            eth0,eth1                              3,4                                      ?

  VM3            eth0,eth1                              5,6                                      ?

  VM4            eth0,eth1                              7,8                                      ?

  VM5            eth0,eth1                              9,10                                    ?

  VM6            eth0,eth1                              11,12                                  ?

  Since we use load balancing based on the virtual port, can two virtual map of the same virtual machine are mapped to the two physical NETWORK card I want say eth0 VM1 is mapped to the (physical nic) VMNIC0, VM1 eth1 get connected VMNIC1 (physical nic).

  It would be great if you could explain how the virtual network adapters are mapped to the physical NIC Y at - it a command or a script to the list NIC(of all vms hosted on esxi) virtual NETWORK adapter mappings physical in detail.

  .

  sansaran wrote:

  Is there a way to know what virtual NIC to connect to which physical NIC

  With the virtual NETWORK adapter, you hear the virtual card inside the VM? If if and when you use several VMNIC like you, there is no visibility in vCenter (usually vSwitches, we see with Distributed vSwitches).

  However, you can use the command-line ESXTOP tool in the view 'n', for the connection between the virtual machines and the outgoing vmnic.

• Add a secondary NETWORK card to a different network in a virtual machine

  We have two ESX 3.5 servers that have been set up by someone else.  All virtual methods on them to join our network of primary trust.

  Well now, I have a virtual machine that needs to connect to our SAN.  To do this with a box of physics, I would be just a second NETWORK adapter to connect the switch that goes to our SAN (that switch is not connected to our network of trust, it's a completely different IP range), but of course I can't do it with a virtual machine.

  The ESX servers already have a connection to these switches, because the SAN is where they store all the images in VMWare.  But I have no idea where start setting this up to allow the VMs themselves to have a secondary NETWORK card to go to the SAN switch.

  How could I go about this?

  Thank you

  Go to your vSwitch configuration, add a port group of virtual machine (give it a name like "VM portgroup iScsi").

  Then add a new network adapter to the virtual machine and attach it to the new group of port.

• Virtual network cards only 100mbs - how to speed up?

  I have a 1 GB physical NETWORK card on my Windows 7 64 bit host. However, virtual network that are installed by 9 workstation cards show that they run at only 100 mbs. Is it possible to run all of the 1 GB instead of 100mbs? I can't find where that is controlled and network cards virtual is not a speed setting that I can find. I wish I had all of the Go go all the way through the virtual hosts (all Windows versions).

  You can change which virtualized NIC is presented to the guest.  Edit the .vmx of the guest and add/edit the following line configuration file:

  If you want an emulated Intel adapter (I think this Signals as a 1 GB link speed):

  ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000".

  ... Or if you want emulated vmxnet3 adapter (I think this Signals as a 10 GB link speed):

  ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3.

• Is it possible to add a virtual network adapter from CF to a virtual machine?

  Hello

  Really, it would be great if I could add a network card virtual FC for a virtual machine so that I could broadcast a lun to it.

  is this possible?

  don't know if you are referring to NPIV, but please take a look at the article below and see if it helps:

  http://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2011/11/NPIV-n-port-ID-virtualization.html

• How to add the second network card?

  A server (VMware ESX 4.1) works well with a network card. Since I want to add a virtual switch, I need to add another network card. So I inserted into a PCI slot and reboot ESX. But the ESX does not. I need to reinstall ESX to let him find this network adapter?

  Thank you very much for the help.

  The added network adapter is Gigabit PCI Desktop Adapter, D-Link DGE-528 t.

  I tried several model D-link years... None of this can work.

  Use a broadcom or Intel card (and listed in HCL).

  André

• Call "HostNetworkSystem.UpdateVirtualSwitch" for the error of the object when you attempt to add the second NETWORK card

  Hi there - first post here, so please be nice :-).

  We are just trying to place an ESX4.1 own deployment in our environment (no previous installation of VMWare) to our main office, using Dell M610 and blades blades M600 to what would become our DR - two sites site hosting VMS on Equallogic iSCSI SAN disks.

  I configured 4 of our blade M610 with ESX 4.1 successfully and they work very well.  These blades have double NIC onboard, and after the initial installation of ESX, I could go to the virtual switch and add in the second NIC like vmnic1 (because one had already been detected during installation).  This fine workd for 4 guests on the M610 blades.  However, I came today to make my first installation on one of the old M600 blades and I encountered a problem.

  Installation went without any problems and I was able to add the host in my vCenter.  I can change all the settings without problem (created the Port of VMKernal for my connection to SAN iSCSI etc, but as soon as I try to add in the second NETWORK card, he paused for a while, and then I get the following error message:)

  Call 'HostNetworkSystem.UpdateVirtualSwitch' of object 'networkSystem-56 "on vCenter Server"VCEN01." ournetwork.local"failed. (network name has been changed for post).  When this happens, it locks up again for several seconds, and when the system returns, I can no longer communicate with the ESX host (Observer of events in vCenter watch 'host is not responding' and I find that I can not ping the host unless I reboot it.)

  If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it that I don't want to proceed down to the line with our Installer if theres an underlying issue and I need to redo everything.

  Concerning

  EFIN.

  Do you get the same error when you try to add the network adapter by using the command line?

  1. esxcfg-vSwitch - L vmnic1 vSwitch0

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• Software exists for the creation of a 'virtual' network card and going to all the traffic on the local network through a proxy server, then by this adapter?

  I can access net through LAN and my college requires a proxy for all access to the internet. If you want to use the internet, it is impossible to do not use a proxy. This is a problem for many programs that do not seem to allow you to enter the proxy settings.

  any software is to create a 'virtual' network adapter that will pass all traffic network (or any protocol x traffic) through the proxy?

  So I have do not need to enter the proxy anywhere... and I have normal internet access.
  What I saw is possible with OpenVPN, but it is a vpn service that I need .i just want to use the feature. In OpenVPN I just enter my proxy server in its framework and OpenVPN to connect to a VPN service and routes all traffic to the FAUCET adapter after which I don't need to set the proxy address anywhere... so my idea is how can I use only the last part that is routing all my LAN traffic to a virtual card.

  Support the LAN---> proxy---> virtual adapter--->, then software I access the net

  That's what I like to do...

  Although I am facing this problem on Windows 7, solutions for all operating systems are welcome.

  P.S: Proxifier is not my solution to not offer something like this.

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• The virtual network card speed

  When I installed first of all ESXi5, I got 100 MB switches.  I replaced all the switches in my GB rack server and all the virtual machines and no VMs shows that they are connected to 1 GB.  I downloaded a free lan speed tool to see exactly how quickly my lan speed was and I noticed something strange.  The speed test on my VM server not approached speeds GB but when I test all my virtual machines I get only 100 MB speeds.

  I noticed in the configuration of the client vSphere tab its only showing 100 full duplex MB.  I've selected the vmnic0 and chose to edit the properties and change the configuration to 1000 full duplex mb speed.  This change has dropped all my virtual machines offline and when I checked on the physical server, I noticed the NIC has no light activity.  I scrambled to understand how to fix it and finally had to use a different port on the NETWORK adapter on the physical server to deliver my virtual machines on the network.  I always show 100bm on vmnic1 speed and always make me 100 MB speeds on the lan test that I run.

  This suggests two qustions for me:

  1. why my first nic stop working when I changed the speed in vSphere and how to operate again?

  2. How can I get my mV GB speeds.

  Thanks in advance for the help!

  Well, there's your problem

  Perhaps your switch port is not configured correctly or you have some faulty wiring or a faulty NETWORK card? Go to the configuration of your network host and click the icon of the legend to the right of vmnic1. This will show you the CDP information and will tell you the interface to check.

  I also see that you are on an old patch level, I highly recommend getting on the latest version, because a NUMA scheduling patch included in this compilation which makes a big difference in performance. This is unrelated to your current number, but thought I would mention it anyway.

  You can patch in the other uplinks to see what they are negotiating to?

• Cannot add the secondary network card

  Hello! I bought specially for ESXi (Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter, model number 8390MT) a new PCI Intel network card. It is listed as a supported network component. I have pluged it started, the host, went the networking, but I still see only one, the old network card. It would appear there automatically or must something needs to be done in the linux command line? I'm not good with linux, maybe I should just re - install the ESXi?

  Make sure that you add the NIC in the vSwitch. If you just go to the page of networking in the VShpere customer, you won't see the second NIC automatically connected to the vSwitch. Did you do that?

• The virtual NETWORK card MAC address is editable in ESXi?

  Is it possible to put the address MAC of the virtual NETWORK adapter to a custom value instead of let the hypervisor generate the MAC address for each NETWORK adapter in each computer running under ESXi virtual? I know that this is possible in workstation, server, Fusion, etc.

  Hello.

  Discover KB 507.

  Good luck!

• Change the binding of the virtual network card network

  Hallo,

  Since a few days, I try to get a script in orchestrator.

  here my script:

  System.log ("Start SetNics");

  virtualDeviceConfigSpec1 = new VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpec();

  virtualDeviceConfigSpec1 = System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vc.vm.spec.config").getVirtualDeviceConfigSpec (nic1, null, VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit)

  virtualDeviceConfigSpec1.device = nic1;

  Server.log ("Set NIC2 ("virtualDeviceConfigSpec1.device.deviceInfo.label") of ConfigSprec");

  virtualDeviceConfigSpec1.device.backing = new VcVirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo();

  virtualDeviceConfigSpec1.device.backing.network = network1.reference;

  Server.log ("Set Network1 backing");

  virtualDeviceConfigSpec1.operation = VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit;

  var virtualMachineConfigSpec = new VcVirtualMachineConfigSpec();

  virtualMachineConfigSpec.deviceChange = new Array();

  virtualMachineConfigSpec.deviceChange.push (virtualDeviceConfigSpec1);

  tempVm.reconfigVM_Task (in virtualMachineConfigSpec);

  the script needs to change a network adapter is connected to the network.

  the variables are:

  tempVm = VirtualMachine

  Network1 = network

  NIC1 = VcVirtualPCNet32

  I hope someone could help me

  with greetings

  Malta

  When you retrieve the VirtualDeviceConfigSpec object, in the getVirtualDeviceConfigSpec() method, the method returns the blank template for the VirtualDeviceConfigSpec. To use this technique in your case, you must also specify which virtual device to change for example, you must set the virtualDeviceConfigSpec1.device property to change the network link for a virtual network device. To do the same thing, see the following steps:

  • 1 retrieve all virtual devices available to the virtual machine by using the vm.config.hardware.device property

  • 2. remove the network device appropriate for which the network link must be changed

  • 3 set the appliance recoveries of VirtualDeviceConfigSpec device. Here, you can either use the getvirtualdevicespec() method or create a new object virtualdeviceconfigspec.

  Please see below the code snippet to change the network to a virtual machine.

  Here, we provide three input parameters, namely the virtual machine whose network needs to be changed, the existing network name and the name of the new network.

  string variable existNetwork contains the name of the existing network

  string variable NouveauNetwork contains the name of the new network

  var vmspec = new VcVirtualMachineConfigSpec();

  device of var = new VcVirtualPCNet32();

  var devicearr = new Array();

  NIC var = new VcVirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo();

  nic.deviceName = NouveauNetwork;

  var devicespec = new VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpec();

  var features = vm.config.hardware.device;

  for (var I in devices)

  {

  If (devices [i] instanceof VcVirtualPCNet32)

  {

  If (.deviceInfo.summary [i] devices is existNetwork)

  {

  devicespec. Device = [i] devices;

  devicespec. Operation = VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit;

  devicespec. Device.Backing = nic;

  devicearr [0] = devicespec;

  }

  }

  }

  vmspec.deviceChange = devicearr;

  task = vm.reconfigVM_Task (vmspec);

  I hope this helps.

• Add and remove an existing virtual network cards cannot spend.

  Hello

  I am trying to add network adapters to a virtual switch existing, in my case, I have vSwitch2 connected to vmnic3 and I want to add vmnic4. If I use the following command replaces vmnic3 by vmnic4

  Game-VirtualSwitch - VirtualSwitch $vswitch - Nic vmnic4

  I checked the manual and the description for the setting of the NIC is "specify new NIC to the virtual switch. The former NPI are replaced by those specified. »

  I use VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 build 264274, please help me with the correct comdlets to ADD and REMOVE maps a virtual switch network existing.

  Thanks in advance.

  F10

  VCP3, VCP4, HPCP, HP UX CSA

  http://KB.VMware.com/

  Hello

  If you want to keep the old nic on the vswitch you can use the following syntax:

  Game-VirtualSwitch - VirtualSwitch $vswitch - Nic vmnic3, vmnic4

  Remove new vmnic4 would be your old cmd

  Game-VirtualSwitch - VirtualSwitch $vswitch - Nic vmnic3

  because the existing maps on this vswitch are replaced as you read in the documentary.

  Kind regards.

• How can I add more than one virtual network card?

  I am running Small Business Server 2003 as a virtual machine, there is only one NIC given by VMWARE, I want it 2 because it is a requirement of SBS. How can I do this?

  Thank you

  Jane

  One of the known limits of the VI Client is that it won't change VMs virtual hardware is a greadter of the version 4. Server 2.0 creates VMs version 4 so it looks that you have upgraded the hardware, possibly for support of USB 2.0, which means that you can change only the user Web interface unless you want to do this via the directly .vmx file manually editing.

  You can add the material in the web user interface, you select the virtual machine in the left pane on the left by clicking on it and select "Add Hardware" as directed by the attached screenshot.

  There are ways to downgrade to a hardware version 4 - I only if necessary upgrade for most of my virtual machines are 4 so that I can use the VI Client.