Additional physical network adapters on host VMware ESXi 3.5

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• Grouping of NETWORK adapters and NLB on ESXi 3.5

  I want to get ESXi to load balance the traffic to my NFS storage, but have had no success. My test set up is the following:

  • Two blades each with two physical network adapters dedicated to the ESXi for NFS kernel ports

  • Two switches

  • A NETWORK adapter on each blade is connected to each switch - it isn't an Etherchannel or trunking configured

  • Two NFS devices on a different IP address

  • Eight virtual machines on each blade, four to connect to a data store on each device of NFS

  • ESXi NIC teaming across two network cards with the option "route based on the virtual origin of switch port code.

  My understanding is that each virtual computer must use one of the network cards, but about half must use a physical NETWORK card and half the other. Instead, all the traffic of all eight VMs released a physical NIC if I disable the physical NIC, it moves the second NETWORK card without problem. Then they both work, but he never uses both at the same time. This behavior is consistent across the two blades.

  Is throughbut limited to ~ 110 MB per blade and the storage system can easily exceed this.

  I've attached a screenshot of a virtual switch in place.

  TIA,

  Will be

  Virtual machines are access NFS data warehouses directly? If Yes, then yes it should work that way - however if you are using the NFS data store to host the VM files, including virtual disks and then traffic will turn off the vmkernel port and if have vmkernel unique port then what you are experiencing is expected - the vmkernel selects the outgoing NIC based on the virtual port id so if you have a single port vmkernel will suffice a single port as well as a NETWORK identifier unique will be used.

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• two physical network adapters

  I repost this hope someone has an answer, I have the version free vm esxi with two physical network adapters, one fix on my lan to the wan port

  I have install windows server with two NICs, my only choice is flexible and it shows two NICs in winodws question she the same nic phiscal side lan I need to do both (I know it's the same thing since it has the same number of mac).

  Help, please

  Frank

  Have you set up a second virtual connected to the second physical NETWORK card? -see (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_quickstart.pdf) quick start guide for instructions on how to add a virtual switch

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• The upgrade of the host, VMware ESXI 4.1

  Hello

  I am running a host VMware ESXi 4.1. It seems that VMware claims now this product VMware vSphere Hypervisor (am I right?). Was it a name change purely marketing, or they introduce new functions as well? Is VSphere Hypervisor a more recent version of ESXi

  Is there a tool to upgrade VMware ESXi 4.1 for newer versions (no matter if their output yet or not, just wondering about the upgrade in general)?

  Thanks in advance!

  Don't worry, it's all the same. You have the same binary files for all editions of ESXi, it is only the license key that locks or unlocks features. I think that the main reason why VMware decided to call ESXi free edition "Hypervisor" was because many people were confused that ESXi is free or not.

  There are two upgrade options ESXi. For the first, you must have a licensed version of vCenter Server, which offers the "Update Manager". The second is to use the command line utility "vihostupdate".

  In addition, you can take a look at http://www.vm-help.com/esx41/Patching_4.1_with_the_host_update_utility.php

  André

• Mapping of several physical network adapters to virtual network adapters

  Hi all

  I am wanting to know how to combine physical network adapters to virtual nics in Vsphere 4.1. I have a gateway virtualized device that supports multiple WAN connections and balancing on these connections. The bridge is all authentication PPPoE/A, so I need to have separate cards for each PPP connection. So, how can I connect a physical NETWORK adapter to a virtual NETWORK adapter and have all access the same VM virtual NIC?

  Hope that makes sense!

  James

  Right-click on the virtual machine, and then select change settings. On the Hardware tab, click Add, and then add the virtual NICs that you will need.  On the network connection screen, you will be able to select a network label which corresponds to VM port groups you created.

• Configure the virtual server to 2003 to use two physical network adapters on the host

  I have a virtual server (Server 2003) that I'm trying to point two virtual NETWORK card to two different physical NICS on the host computer.  The two network adapters on the host are on separate networks, and I can't get virtual network cards to connect properly.

  I use VMWARE Server 2 with the virtual network manager.  All good instructions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Run the virtual network Editor.  Disable the automatic bypass.  Then, specify which of your physical NIC to the bridge to VMnet0 and specify the other physical NETWORK adapter on one of the switches (2-7, 9) unused VMnet.  In the settings of your virtual machine, select a virtual NETWORK adapter to be filled, and a 2nd we use custom connection and specify what VMnet switch to use (the one you filled the 2nd NETWORK card physical to).

• VM simple Load Balancing with 4 physical network adapters

  I have one main server with 4 cards of physical network dedicated to this server in a vSwitch. I wanted to know the proper way to balancing configuration in vSphere to allow a theoretical throughput of 4 Gbit/s. The options I have, as you know:

  1. Port according to ID - this the method by default when you have 2 or more physical NIC connected to a virtual switch. The VM traffic is realized on a physical NETWORK card based on the VMs virtual port ID and is incremented in the style of round robin. So if you have 2 NICs physical network, the first drop of will traffic VMs that the first NIC, the second VM shuts down to the second NIC, third comes out first NETWORK card and operating system on - host ESXi does not resemble the traffic so if VMs 1,3,5 are heavy network users they will go on the same NETWORK adapter even if the second NETWORK card can be totally unused
  2. Address based MAC - based similar to port, but the physical NETWORK adapter is selected according to the MAC address of virtual machines
  3. IP hash database - the physical NETWORK adapter is selected based on the starting and destination IP address - so if a virtual machine connect to several IP addresses that traffic will be disttibuted on all physical network cards - note this will require LACp be configured on the physical spend this ost ESXi connects to

  The first two sound me as they would give me what I want from the physical NIC selection is based on the virtual source, not the destination machine. So, since I have only a virtual computer, the LB would never use a physical NIC and I'd be stuck with 1 Gbps.

  The third option seems more promising, but I do not have much exposure to the management switch. LACP would be similar to the creation of a trunk on my 3Com switch 2848 reference? It seems likely, but I wanted to run it by the experts to make sure.

  Thank you!

  EDIT: I think I just found the killer. Cited in the manual for my switch:

  The switch does not support the aggregation of links
  Protocol LACP (Control), which is specified in the IEEE standard
  802.3ad.

  Does that mean I'm desperate to do my 4 Gbps with the swithc and I MUST get a LACP switch?

  You will need either LACP or EtherChannel on your switch upstream to support IP hash configuration, install, configure, manage Volume 1 book for ESXi 5.0. With hash IP, MAC address of the virtual computer may appear on any of the physical interfaces available for the vSwitch (at least for the outbound traffic), which would cause problems on the side of the physical switch unless a method of aggregation (LACP or EtherChannel) link type is enabled.

  Mike

• Problems with the new host VMware ESXi 5.0

  We have a dell blade chassis, with 4 710 blades and 8 610 the 710's have 12 network cards and the 610's have only 6 network adapters. I added a new host on one of the 610's and two network adapters in each of the networks belonging to virtual infrastructure. 1 mgmt 2. ISCSI 3. vmnetwork

  My problem is that the new host can see all the resources but I can't move the VM from the hosts to the host 610 710. I get an error because nic 2 on the 710 host is not in the same network as nic 2 on the 610. It seems silly that I wouldn't be able to do that just because the hardware is not identicle.

  I have three vswitches, vswitch0 for management, vswitch1 for the iSCSI network of shared storage, vswitch2 for the network of the vm.

  Thanks for any help.

  Steven Reeves

  Systems engineer

  Shasta College

  [email protected]

  Material is not identical not should not have an impact.

  The vSwitch port group to which are connected the NICs in question is named identically on both hosts?  If they have a different name, vSphere considers different networks.

• Adding an additional physical network to an ESXi 4.0 host card

  I just installed ESXi 4.0.0 219382 on a new Dell PowerEdge T710 server. After installation, I noticed that the host sees that Broadcom NetXtreme NIC and not the Intel Gigabit AND Quad Port NIC, which is in a PCI slot card. I check the hardware compatibility list, and the card is listed. I noticed that if I go to advanced configuration/VMDirectPath Setup / configure Passthrough, I see the network map.

  Thanks for the help.

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_esxi_server_config.PDF and see the Networking section.

  Network cards, switches etc. are added in the Configuration tab under networks. There are several technical presentations available in the tab overview of this forum online.

• Network adapters disconnected on vmware server

  After I set up a virtual server for Novell netware, it identifeid speed of the virtual machine to each NIC that 1000, so I tried to change the speed of virtual machine from 100 to 1000.  Now I can't connect to the remote VM machine.  At the level of the server, each NETWORK adapter is noted as disconnected.  Because it was his internal IP address via DHCP from another Novell server that is no longer, it connects to, I put a static IP address to the server console.  Still nothing rmotely.  What should I do to fix my mischief.

  In general you should just be able to put 4.1 above the location of 4.0 x. AFAIK, some configurtion files gets lost on ESXi and you create a backup of them (if you wish). Read page 59 of the document I have posted the link to.

  Guests should not affect, however, if possible, make a backup of your guests. If they are associated with a shared storage, disconnect it.

  Work through this 55 page document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.pdf

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• slow startup of the host VMWare ESXi 5.5 when installed on the hard drive internal

  We have some servers Dell R720 with 256G RAM and 2 6core Procs.  When I install ESXi client for internal hard drives (mirrored array) it takes literally more than 5 minutes to start.  I can watch the vmware boot process crawl slowly the progress bar on the screen in "recovery" mode before moving on to the substantive start-up procedure yellow.

  Why is this slow process?  Why a hard drive inside is install using syslinux? (it's the first thing that shows on the display).  If I had to guess, I would say that the only facility to support runs of fat32 on a USB flash drive and the same hard drive installs use this same process to start.  Am I wrong?

  I'm late to the party, but we have been affected by this issue. The solution is a updated internally perc firmware.

  It's like night and day.

  Reference DELL PERC H310 Mini blades Firmware version 20.13.0 - 0007

  SAS RAID: Release date: 02/06/2014 | Last update on 02/06/2014

• adding additional disks to existing VMWare ESXi host

  If I have a VMWare ESXi host that has 2 disks configured in Raid 1 and later add more than 3 drives and configure these 3 drives in Raid 5, will host VMWare ESXi what to see and be able to use it without any settings?

  You may need to perform a new crawl, but there should be no problem. Make sure that your RAID 5 array is broken into less than 2 TB LUN. (2 TB less 512Bytes)

• question of vSwitch transmission of local area networks VIRTUAL VMWare ESXi, Vsphere 5.0 5.0

  Having little experience VMware, I entrust the task to try to see why one of our VLAN does not work on one of our servers ESXi 5.0. I will try to be as descriptive as possible.

  The issue began just after works well for months, when it started for starting and running config had not been updated for several weeks on the router and switch.

  Our server has 4 0 1 2 3 physical NICS

  0 and 1 are associated together on VLAN1 and are also used for the management network

  Map NETWORK 2 is used for 111 VLAN (network connect our wireless users to so that they cannot interact with VLAN1)

  3 NIC is connected to the VLAN 66 (a network for video and deployment services)

  These 4 physical network adapters is connected to three different vswitches as follows (I'm not the one who created these so don't ask why they are as they are)

  a vmnic0 and vmnic1 vSwitch0

  vSwitch1 has vmnic3

  vSwitch2 has vmnic2

  All these ports are physically connected to a Dell PowerConnect 5548 switch

  vmnic0 to:

  interface gigabitethernet1/0/24

  Description "VM Server 1.

  switchport mode general

  switchport general allowed vlan add 111 tag

  VLAN allowed switchport General add 1 unidentified

  VLAN banned general switchport add 5,66,98

  vmnic1 to:

  interface gigabitethernet1/0/17

  Description "VM Server 2."

  switchport mode general

  switchport general allowed vlan add 111 tag

  VLAN allowed switchport General add 1 unidentified

  VLAN banned general switchport add 5,66,98

  vmnic2 to:

  interface gigabitethernet1/0/6

  Description «VM Server 3»

  switchport general allowed vlan add 111 tag

  VLAN allowed switchport General add 1 unidentified

  VLAN banned general switchport add 5,66,98

  switchport access vlan 111 (tried several different configurations on this port that Trunk including 1 unmarked and 111 the tag as VLAN 1 and 111 come through the router on the same port. Also just a base switchport mode access vlan 111)

  vmnic3 to:

  interface gigabitethernet1/0/43

  Description "VM Server 4.

  switchport access vlan 66

  If I plug a laptop computer into im int 1/0/6 I get an IP address from the DHCP server, and you can get online. When I go into the properties vSwitch2 and go to VMKernel and try to set it to automatically get an IP address, I get a 169.254*. * address. There is no connection if I statically set the address of one knowledge is available yet. I'll add more information later if needed, I have a meeting in which concerns another project. Anyone who can help, thanks in advance. If you need specific information, I will answer as soon as POSSIBLE.

  On the configuration under maps page network vmnic2 has no observed IP address ranges and I do not know how to change the nic to perhaps add the addresses

  I would try to eliminate the physical NETWORK adapter on the host being the issue. Silly question, but is there a link light? Drop a sniffer out there and see if there is no traffic passing if trying a different physical nic does not help.

• MAC addresses of our network interface cards physical on the ESX host

  I asked a very interesting question.   What is the MAC address for each physical network cards within our ESX host.   Our host ESX3.5Update4 has 6 of them.

  I am able to ESXCfg allows to identify the vNIC but assimilates to the physical network adapters?   or, how can I find the MAC address of the physical network adapters?

  No, I mean there are additional MAC addresses that the switch can 'see '.  The service console interface have a MAC, and address that will be displayed if you run 'ifconfig', but vmkernel will not be displayed in this way, use "esxcfg-vmknic - l" to display this MAC address.  The virtual machine each have their own of the MAC you can get that from their configuration files, or the vi client.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Find a host physical NETWORK card IP address

  I am trying to find the IP addresses for my physics of the NETWORK adapter on each host.

  After http://communities.vmware.com/message/1332071 , I get MAC addresses, but I can't seem to get the IP addresses

  Karl

  ESX is used to map the vSwitches on your physical network adapters.

  You define consoles of Service or vmKernel (s) on the vSwitch (es).

  You have external access via the Service console COS.

  This is the IP address that you can access COS of the ESX Server.

  The natachasery have no Service Console (or VMKernel) IP addresses defined on them.