Adding 2nd NIC killed ESX Server

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• Adding 2nd NIC (pci express gigabit) to DC7700p. Now, it does not start.

  Adding 2nd NIC (pci express gigabit) to DC7700p.  Now, it does not start. Can not pass boot F9 or F10 Setup Menu. Or the boot or installation menu is accessible.  Any ideas?

  Hello:

  The PCIe slot on a dc7700 usable only for a PCIe video card. If you want or need to add an additional NETWORK card, you need to add a PCI NIC.

  Paul

• How to manually configure the IP, subnet, gateway on the new NIC in ESX Server 3.5

  Hello, first let me say that I am relatively new on ESX Server and so the question I ask here may seem trivial but I looked through the documentation and other threads and that you have not found quite what I'm looking for.

  I have an ESX Server 3.5 with a number of production virtual machines running works very well.  I need to install a second NETWORK adapter because my use of the network will go through the roof, once I convert a production server used in a virtual machine on this machine.  I have a server Dell PE 2950 and I bought an Intel Pro/1000 PT dual port PCI-e adapter that is on the list of hardware supported.  In the reading I did, every reason to believe that when I set up the server, the new network cards will appear in the VIC where I can assign to a new Vswitch and so forth, so I get it.  What I don't see in the VIC is a way to specify the NETWORK adapter settings.

  The problem is that the switch I connect to, put in place by our network management staff, will not be DHCP settings of NETWORK card for me, I have to manually configure the IP, subnet and gateway until I can start talking.  When I initially installed ESX, I was able to provide all parameters of NETWORK card installation - which is not the case now with the new NETWORK card and the operating system all this up and running.  How do I do this?  Thanks for any help.

  ... BillH

  Adding another physical NETWORK card to your vSwitch will make this new Teddy to comply with policies of vSwitch.  In particular, the load balancing algorithm will determine how the additional bears will get used.  By default, this is done with switch port ID.  This means that each vm NIC that feeds, will choose the next available bear to talk about.  The virtual NIC will essentially be Robin and choose the next Teddy online to talk it through and will so remain like that until a failure condition occurs, or the virtual machine is restarted.

  If you know a particular VM is a high user of I/O, and you want to separate its traffic from the rest of your virtual machine, and then create a new portgroup on vSwitch0, assign this new portgroup 3rd Teddy and use the other two as before.  In addition, in your regular exchanges, remove or make sleep 3rd Teddy.  In this way you completely isolate the heavy vm from the rest of your systems.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert 2009

• Adding a CPU of ESX server

  Hi all

  My apologies if this was asked before. We will install an additional CPU in one of our servers running VMware vSphere Essentials 5, more. The type of server is an HP DL360 G6.

  Problem is that we are only licensed for one physical processor. I'm not sure how to obtain additional licenses for additional CPU, and I don't know how to do in this regard. Can install us safely the additional CPU it will affect the virtual machines? Take the license sorted first before even to consider installing the CPU?

  If anyone can shed some light, I would appreciate it.

  The license stops the use of this additional cpu so I recommend the licensing update. If you talk to your VMware/TAM dealer they can update your not licenses for you, no problem

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• Adding 2nd NIC in Vsphere Client

  Hello

  I have 3 VMs at all using the same physical NETWORK adapter and to split these to the top. They are all using vmnic0, I can see under network adapters, he sees 2 physical NETWORK adapters, but vmnic1 says "down".

  How can I activate and for example do one virtual machines use this physical NETWORK adapter?

  Do I just go vSwitch0 properties and network adpaters tab and add the unused? then what?

  Thank you

  Hello

  According to the guidelines of your entry, 'Said VMNIC1 down' - Please check if the network cable is connected to this network adapter. You can use this NETWORK adapter only if it is enabled.

  As much as possible to use two cards available network by configuring the collection of NETWORK adapters. Your virtual machines will be able to communicate if or the other of the NIC fails.

  Navigate vSwitch0 properties, network adapters available add-on (2 cards network will be well) together the NETWORK card must be under cards active and select Load Balance teaming.

  VSphere will be dynamically allocate the bandwidth of the network for each virtual computer.

  Kind regards

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• Added Distributed Switch, now can not access any ESX Server

  Hi guys,.

  I just completed the implementation of our first 2 ESX servers, a server vCentre added in as a virtual machine to a trial and the addition of a distributed switch to separate our traffic. During this process, I somehow picked the wrong interconnect to cross and moved VMNIC0 that running the SC and all virtual machines after the original installation.

  Now, I can't access the ESX server or server vCentre to revert back the changes I made. However, I have physical access to the servers via command line.

  Is there a relatively simple way, I can move the SC and VM' on the default vswitch? This happens when the server vCentre has been disconnected for a period of time?  I don't mind having to add the virtual machine to a vCentre at all, so remove the ESX on it will return to the way 1 vswitch and give me access again.

  I'm kinda stuck at the moment as I have ready 8 VM to start a project on but cannot access any of them!

  Thanks in advance

  Simon

  Simon,

  You must set up a group of ports "Service Console" and assign a vswif. If you follow the steps in KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1000266 it will show you how to do this. The service console port group is necessary for the host be observable at the customer virtual Center/vi. I have attached 2 screenshots of what esxcfg-vswitch - l and esxcfg-vswif - l should look like. The Group of ports VMotion is not necessary, just the service console.

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• Adding a new NETWORK adapter to the ESX Server

  I have an ESX 3.5 server that has two NIC onboard.  I decided that I will join the ESX Server to the SAN, so I need these two NICS for iSCSI.  I'm going to install a NETWORK card in the PCI - X slot.  Unfortunately, without GUI, I'm confused as to how it will work.  Can someone give me some advice on how to add a new NETWORK card?  I checked esxcfg and I don't know if that's what I'm trying to use.  Any help would greatly be appreciated.

  In the VI client, you should be able to go on the tab network management under configuration see the NIC it to add them to the correct vSwitch.

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• 450 GB HDD added in ESX Server

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• installation of the agent on the vmware ESX Server

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  Rgds

  Hi Nicky,

  We will clear up the confusion of port for the next version.  Regarding
  availability be yellow, I believe that it is through the combination
  the VMware API in 3.0 is much slower than ESX 2 times 20
  VMS exposes this recently fixed issue: http://jira.hyperic.com/browse/
  HHQ-437

  You can find a patch fixed the issue that should solve your
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  Buy adding to agent.properties:

  plugins.include = VMware

  You can also change the max heap size in agent.properties:
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  On 15 January 2007, at 03:52, Haan Nicky wrote:

  > okay... It's already better... but first, autodetect didn t
  > work for hyperic settings, when you try to set it to 0 for the port.
  > He complains the port must be between 1 and 65535.
  > change the settings on the execution of the agent already has failed
  > either, so I killed the admin machine and deleted data
  > folder on the computer of the agent, after the reset and the
  > the right credentials and port 443 (Please note that the)
  > authd.client.port is 902... and not 443, check/etc/vmware/config
  > for this authd.client.port = '902', so I obviously thought that of
  (> What is necessary in the settings, maybe just state port 443 here?) I have
  > then started the inventory, which is quite long (10 minutes) and
  > memory and CPU was quite up on the esx Server (this is a double quad
  (> xeon machine with 16 concerts and about 20 vitrual machines running)...
  > the agent runs now, but somehow I think that the moment a large number,
  > availability is always on the yellow... I think that the agent
  > must refine even more here... on an esx 3.0 server there are only
  > 1 cpu and limited memory available for the linux Machinehote...
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• Cannot manage ESX server

  Hello

  I have a strange problem, I have a new installation of esx 3.5 on an HP BL20P G2 (version of Bios I04) Blade, I use a HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch. I created a VLAN for management and added 1 NIC of blades and the external fiber port goes to the manement switch in the VLAN.  My management server, I can ping on the ESX host and checked the required ports are accessible (there is no firewall between the two). But trying to add the uning the just the customer gateway server or add it to my infrustucture Server I get the message "the request failed because the remote server has taken too much time to react."  He however reveal the warning for the first announcement of Cert and then gives this message some time after. The console service settings are correct on the map to the right.  I also can not web brows to it, gives me the waring for cert in the browser and then times out.

  Any help would be great please!

  We had a similar problem for awhile on our HP C7000 enclosure, it turned to be a configuration problem in one of our switches in the basket.  I'm not a guy of networking, but you can go through your switch box and check there is no configuration mismatches.

• VMware ESX server CPU use test alarm

  Hi all

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  While I reduced the threshold value of VMW ESX Server CPU use as beloow format

  WARNING - 5% and STDev.warning - 0

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  Help the creation of a test of the abveo metric ESX alarm

  Hi - I ended up having to do such things in the past as well. I just built a virtual machine added lots of processors and memory, then for the CPU, I used the script CPUBusy.vbs from VMware (Google search which) and down it load times so that he began to max real physical processors... For memory, I just opened a massive text file in Wordpad and scroll up and down it. This gave me the circumstances to test the alarms, just don't do as a busy time or use some dev ESX servers... Danny Bravo

• Installing additional NIC cards ESX 4i

  Hello

  I would like to install very cards on my ESX Server, this will be used for the backup.  The new NIC card is identical to the NETWORK card of filtration in the system (NC375T).  What commands should I deliver to ensure that ESX 4i is able to see the new maps.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can check if the new adapter is installed well with VI Client > host VMware > Configuration > network card

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• The "Console" tab fails on servers on a host ESX Server 3.5.0

  Hello

  On one of our server VMware ESX 3.5.0 123630 hosts, I get an error message when I try to use the "Console" tab on the servers located on the ESX Server.

  The error message "unable to connect to the host esx006.sb.local: a connection attempt fails, because the connected party did not properly after a period or the connection failed because the connected host has failed."

  This ESX Server is configured as all the other ESX servers in our environment, so I don't understand why it does not work on the ESX Server.

  I have no problems connecting to the ESX Server and I have no problems connecting to servers through the mstsc.

  I have the following VMware Infrastructure customers installed on my computer:

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  Can you help me solve this mystery?

  Kind regards

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  Hi still =)

  Sorry, that you're still having problems... I hope that we will get there in the end!

  In any case, take a look at the following site, there is a solution out there that can help (it's certainly worked for several!) people who added to comments

  Please try this and let me know how you go.

  See you soon

  Waffle

• Adding a NIC to ESXi 4

  Hello

  I'm experimenting with ESXi 4, and I just tried to add a network adapter to a host. It is a Netgear GA311 gigabit card that I just picked up at staples. Never checked the HCL list, but this is just a test on the old hardware, in any way, so I wasn't expecting everything to be completely perfect.

  I checked a driver on http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4#drivers_tools and does not see my card. So, if my card is not a pilot, I'm out of luck? Is there a generic driver I can use. I am not concerned to obtain 100% of the performance of this card. In fact, I do not yet really on performance at this stage. I just want to see if I can assign an additional NIC to a VM on the host and let others related to the integrated card.

  If there is any way I can set it up as a generic NIC, which would save the trouble to return it and get a card in the HCL.

  Thank you

  John

  If the NETWORK adapter is not on the HCL, then chances are you either GROUND or have a LOT of hunting and fiddling in front of you. Even in this case, there is not that big a chance to get NETWORK card to work, all the... HCL tells you when the drivers for the NETWORK adapter are actually INCLUDED in the ESX/ESXi to build. That's what you REALLY want... While you can add material to an ESX/ESXi version/version that comes out after the build is released via the drivers available from the VMware site, there is really no "generic" drivers that work with ESX/ESXi. Put as simply as possible, ESX/ESXi is a term OS so drivers for Windows, or versions of Linux, do not work. ESX has a Console Service that is installed as part of the installation which is based on a distribution of Linux, but even this is severely modified...

  You are the best solution would be to return this netgear card and pick up one that is on the HCL liberation of ESXi, you intend to use. I assure you that HCL has the NIC listed for more than just an ESXi 4, make sure that it is also the ESXi 4.1 list so that you are not looking to do it all over again when you go to 4.1...

  The best maps, in my opinion, are those of Intel (and are on the HCL). Of course, you want to Go, and I would opt for a dual-port NETWORK adapter if it isn't a quad port.

  Go ahead, watch the official HCL for the equipment before buy you them. If it is not listed, I wouldn't buy it... Chances are, places like staples will have points you can use. You'll end up their order online, or go to a shop that can special for you order material (if they don't already have server in stock class equipment)... Single NIC Gb should run you in the range $30 + with double NETWORK card port running up to $150... I know it may seem like a lot, but they rank real Server NIC, NOT just for any old office... Class/category server equipment is held to a MUCH higher level that you slap in your average office (or even a high quality desktop computer)... The next closest series would be class workstation (true) material. I am referring to those who are taking double, powered with four memory slots server class processor (usually 8 +).

  BTW, a QUICK search in the section of VMware HCL IO devices using the version of ESX/ESXi 4.1, name of partner: Intel and Type: network, gave 85 hits... Some of those who are for 10 GB of NETWORK card, but there are a lot of 1 GB NIC that is completely compatible with ESX/ESXi 4.1 as well as the 4.0 versions (and many of them indicating compatibility with the old reelases). Begin to track down those listed on sites like newegg.com until you find one you like (number of prizes and the port)...

  Personally, I use a double and a port quad Intel GB NIC (the two server level) inside my ESXi 4.1 home host... Yes, they were NOT cheap (~ $400 for the quad, $150 - $200 for the two), but stability and performance to make the expense worth it... Not to mention how long they are supposed to last, even during the long sessions of I/O high.

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• License available when one of the ESX Server is in maintenance mode

  The available license count changes if ESX Server is added in maintenance mode? I think that the answer is Yes, but I want to be sure of it. Unfortunately I can't test this in my environment.

  I have ESX 3.5 update 5 and VC upadate 6

  Thank you

  I just tested it, and the number of licenses available for my 3.5 servers has not changed after that one has been placed in maintenance mode.  I wouldn't really expect him if she is always powered, but unfortunately I can't supply a stop for the moment.

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