Assign comments NIC to the virtual switch / Portgroup

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• Problems with the revival of NIC in the virtual switches

  We have implemented a vlan trunking and during the installation, I found some, but not all of my cards are not detect a 'down' State in vmware. I have tried rebooting all equipment and it did not help. I double checked the configurations, and they are the same, I see. I was wondering if anyone has had problems with this.

  In the picture below I would normally see a red X in the State of the NETWORK adapter binding after a few moments, and the other NETWORK adapter will pass traffic. On 5 configured hosts, this seemed to be the only NIC that is not down to the virtual center when I stopped the switchport. Then when I restarted the swtich, I checked 5 guests for the correct path failover. Strangely, my other hosts 2 has actually detected the card NETWORK went down but the failover does not occur and the virtual machine went unresponsive to the outside world, even if their State of link does show and X! Failover detection is set to bind the State.

  All but one host is 3.5.64607, the other is 82663. My next step is to update and bring it to past versions. I hope that this will work.

  Hello

  I had this same problem with my HP and mezzanines of broadcom cards blades.  After many hours with tech support, we realized that this patch fixed: ESX350-200802401-BG.

  Hope that helps!

  Kelly Burton

  COMPUTER systems engineer

  Banner Health

• How to leave the virtual switch as a physical switch law in esxi 5?

  Hello.

  I have Esxi5 installed on a server with 3 physical network card (they are supported and found in Esxi) on that Esxi I installed a virtual-SIN (NexentaStor) machine. The first network adapter is connected to the router, the second network adapter is connected to a PC. DHCP is enabled on the router. Normally on a real switch all connected pc should automatically get an IP address from the server (router), or must be able to communicate when they have a fixed IP address. This does not work on the virtual switch. One of my virtual pc Gets an IP address in a range of false, and I can't connect a real PC at this switch

  2 questions:

  1. Should what settings I use in esxi5 to get virtual pc the good IP address?
     
  2. Is it possible to connect a real pc directly to the second NIC in my esxi server and use the virtual switch as a true switch? In this way, I can use the Gigabit Nic for a fast and direct connection to the virtual NAS and can connect to the internet via the switch?
     

  

  Any help would be appreciated

  Pieter

  ESXi does not NAT unlike VMware Server or Workstation/Fusion.

• Changing the virtual switch name

  Hello

  Is it possible to change the name of the virtual switch, for example, when you create a new vSwitch in VI Center it starts with vSwitch1 can change you it to vSwitch2 providing their isn't another switch with this name?

  Thank you

  you change the esx.conf you need to reboot (be sure and create a backup of esx.conf... /etc/vmware/esx.conf_backup /etc/vmware/esx.conf cp)

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• Network management - only the virtual switch

  I installed latest ESXi 4 Update 1, which is available. I m running Active Directory LAB on several virtual servers Windows 2008 R2 and one of them acts as a router with RRAS role. I m creating 3 different subnets and one of them must be only virtual - no material connection NIC in the interface of ESXi´s it seems that I can't do this, while creating the new switch virtual it forces me to select NIC it becomes a problem, because if I use a virtual switch for Windows 2008 router has the physical NETWORK map It will come to mean that the cable is disconnected. And I need a virtual connection between virtual servers only, that they will be the single subnet between them and communication to physical clients will go through this router´s of Windows 2008 NIC that is not supposed to be physical.

  How can I archive with ESXi?

  You can create a vSwitch without attached Teddy.

  Do not select any NIC, or delete them after the creation of the vSwitch.

  André

• Security on the Virtual Switch

  We have a web layer and a layer of app in our environment.

  An ESX host would have a VLAN to the web layer connection and another with the application layer. Well separated and in line with our security strategy.

  We have a separate vlan for backup. Layer Web and application can share the same network card on the vlan for backup.

  Problem is that it can communicate with each other through the EPS backup because he won't have the physical switch when in the same ESX host. He speaks just internally within ESX.

  Does anyone know if there is a setting in ESX forcing traffic to go to physical swith before talking to another virtual machine on the same host?

  Hello

  See http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/how-traffic-routes-between-vms-on-esx-hosts/ for how routes traffic. If the virtual machines share the same portgroup on the same vSwitch traffic is not routed outside ESX otherwise it's almost always. Check out the blog for more details.

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  VMware communities user moderator

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• Mix the virtual switch different type in a Cluster and a data center.

  Can I mix standard virtual switch and a virtual switch distributed in different hosts to a Cluster/DataCenter? Can I vMotion virtual machine to a host of switch distributed to a host of standard switch and vice versa? Let's assume that the hosts have the same port group name (but have virtual swaitch different type), in the same data center, and have the same subnet IP vMotion.

  You can mix standard switches and distributed, that's what we call hybrid architecture... but to be able to migrate virtual machines between virtual switches, you must the vSphere 6 and again there are some limitations, like not be able to migrate from VDS vs.

  Have a look here for more details on the cross switch vMotion: http://www.vladan.fr/vmotion-enhancements-vsphere-6-0/

• Remove the NIC of the virtual machine running?

  Im trying to remove one NIC from a script and the machine has to be on. I am trying:

  Get-NetworkAdapter $vmname | where {$_.NetworkName - eq "Network 10"} | Remove-NIC

  Remove-NetworkAdapter: 2011-09-28 15:59:24 the VM Remove-network card must be in the following State: PoweredOff.
  At line: 1 char: 101
  + Get NetworkAdapter W7-AutoPrv003 | where {$_.NetworkName - eq "Network 10"} | Remove-NIC < < < <
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidOperation: (PoweredOn:PowerState) [Remove-NetworkAdapter], ViError
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Common_SharedParameterHelper_VerifyVmIsInState_VmNotInState, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.RemoveNetworkAdapter

  Would I really thing that there is a way to remove the NETWORK card when the virtual machine is turned on?

  There with the ReconfigVM_Task method.

  $vm = Get-VM MyVM $nic = $vm.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_.DeviceInfo.Label -eq "Network adapter 2"}
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec $dev = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec $dev.operation = "remove" $dev.Device = $nic
  $spec.DeviceChange += $dev
  
   $vm.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM($spec)
  

  Don't know what the risk is, however.

• The virtual switch configuration

  Hello

  I configured Vswitch on ESX4.0 connected with a teddy bear.

  There are Cisco catalyst 4503 L3 switch configured with several VLANS at the other end. I have configured the switch port trunk with dot1q encap mode that ends on the ESX4.0 server. Service console is configured with IP default VLAN, which is accessible from the other VIRTUAL networks. One of the virtual machine with Win2k3 OS is installed, but after configuration, I am not able to ping default gateway of VLAN respective or any other property intellectual VLAN.

  Can anyone guide me where I go wrong and how to correct the problem?

  Set the Group of ports to the VLAN specific you want the virtual machine to be on.  Do not put any VLAN ID in the virtual machine, just plug it into the port group.  If you have other virtual machines, or other on this virtual machine network interface cards that need to connect to the other VLAN create other Port groups for each VIRTUAL local area network required.

• How to set up the virtual switch vmnet0 so in fact, it behaves like a switch.

  Hello

  I have a problem:

  My configuration is:

  host of CentOS 5.3 using vmware server 1.06

  3 clients (all centos 5.3 with vmware tools) installed

  web01

  DB01

  backup01

  The three guests have public ip and use the bridged (vmnet0) network

  The backup01 backups web01 and db01 every night.

  My supplier can see that traffic on its poort switch that connects the host to the internet, and he wants to charge me for it.

  The three guests (and host) are all on the same subnet. It is the local subnet traffic that does not use a gateway.

  It seems the traffic between hosts is diffuse on my physical eth0 on the host. When I have some files between guests, it also appears on the page from my supplier of PCs followed AY. (Just likecommunication between 2 physical host computers are on the local network when you use a hub instead of a switch)

  I thought it was probably the only way to vmware would work when using network bridges. Because the host doesn't know anyting on the clients ip numbers.

  But when googleling abot this I found several docuemtents (for vmware server 2) telling me that vmnet0 is actually a sort of virtual switch.

  If this is true this virtualswitch should know other mac adressess clients (arp who a..) and she must stop the internal traffic to leave the material.

  Is not what is happinging. It looks more like a virtualhub instead of virtual switch.

  So I was wondering if there are ways to configure the vmnet0 somehow. I was hot, but I can't find anything about it.

  I don't want to change the bridged mode or coz internal use of the intellectual property of the plan is to spit the separate web01 and db01 to vmware guests in the furture.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  My idea was to put an additional physical switch between me and my switch to suppliers, but that seems to be a ridiculous solution.

  Any help is welcome.

  Concerning

  Hans Groot

  VMserver don't use virtual switches: it uses virtual hubs. They are mislabeled - probably because "virtual switch" sounds more sexy than "virtual hub".

  You can't change their behavior to be more like a switch

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• change the virtual switch to the virtual hub

  Hallo,

  all the networkadapters are virtual switch. How can I change to a hub? I'd like to sniff my networktraffic with a guestsystem, but that only works with a hub. Or can I change some settings to do this with esxi?

  version: ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0 110271

  MfG

  Mario

  You can set it on a vSwitch or Portgropup

  Click Edit, switch or PG-> Security-> Promiscous Mode-> accept

  Take a look at the Config Guide http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_3_server_config.pdf

  If you also want traffic on your pSwitch, you create a mirror on your pSwitch port.

• NSX 6.1.5 - distribute Firewall rules are not applied to the empty virtual switches

  Hi all

  We have a big problem since we have improved the NSX to version 6.1.3 to 6.1.5.

  I get a bug following this procedure:

  . In vSphere Client--> NSX, create a new virtual switch

  . Distribuer distribute the firewall, create a rule to deny traffic between two survey periods. Example: source: all, destination: all, service: all, Action: reject, applies: the new virtual switch

  . Connect two VMS to the virtual switch and you can test the other (this is false due to the firewall rule)

  . Publish ANY changes on the firewall distribute (could not be related to our rule. Example to change its name to another rule), and the rule starts to operate.

  Additional steps:

  . Remove the firewall rule

  . Identify the virtual machines in the virtual switch

  . Re-create the firewall with applies rule: the virtual switch (still empty)

  . Connect the virtual machines and ping between them. Yet once, the rule does not work.

  . Publish ANY changes on distributed firewalls and the rule starts to operate.

  NSX version 6.1.3 and 6.2.0 both work correctly. But I can't downgrade to 6.1.3 or upgrade to 6.2.0. 6.2.1 upgrade involves the upgrade of several other components.

  I use the following versions:

  . NSX 6.1.5

  . vCenter Version 5.5.0 Build 2414847

  . ESXi, 5.5.0, 2718055

  Please, any ideas?

  Thank you very much

  D.

  She seems to be a bug in 6.1.5 NSX and there is no solution for this yet. There are workarounds, but none of them apply to my "fully automated" environment

  We need to wait for a fix or upgrade to NSX 6.2.1 requiring an upgrade of several components as well.

  D.

• Virtual Switch Standard virtual Distributed Switch migration / a physical Uplinku

  Hello community,

  My ESXI 4.1 hostmachines are configured with virtual standard switches as follows:

  -1 xGbit public - network VMKERNEL management

  -2 x Gbit/active - VMotion + pi (VMKERNEL)

  -2 x Gbit/active - storage NAS (VMKERNEL)

  -2 x Gbit/active - VM LAN

  I want to migrate to a distributed virtual switch, but Ami don't know if it's possible. The problem is I onlyy a uplink public and I can't add the physical NIC as the standard switch and distributed virtual switch. IAM looking for a way to migrate the portgroup & physical uplink NIC in one step. Someone knows how to do this without adding a second NIC uplink? Please keep in mind that my vCenter is a virtual machine on this machine.

  Thanks in advance,

  Stephan

  Another person asked a similar question in which I looked at How to migrate from a vSwitch to the switch distributed - see if that answers your question.

• Migrating from a distributed virtual switch pass

  I have a cluster that is approved for business-more.  I would like the host to a distributed switch.  The configuration of the virtual switch is as follows:

  4 NICs connected to a host, the NIC are part of an EtherChannel.  The network adapters are teamed up with ip route based on the hash of the IP.  All network adapters are connected to the same vSwitch with port groups created for access to the different VLANS

  I did the following to try to migrate to the new distributed switch: I broke the EtherChannel and removed three network adapters on the virtual switch and assigns them to the distributed switch.  At the same time grouping NETWORK adapters on the virtual channel switch based on the originating virtual, we changed the port ID.  I then migrated the service console more for the new switch successfully distributed.  I have created groups of ports on the virtual switch.

  The question is when I re - create the EtherChannel falls hosts on the network.  I have noted the following: "see attachment".

  Anyone using EtherChannel with distributed switches?

  Any help would be appreciated...

  How to configure etherchannel on your Cisco switch? You may not use LACP or PAgP. You must use "channel-group mode on.

• Start the virtual machine and wait for WF, does not connect to the computer virtual for Vds (Windows 2008 R2)

  Hello

  See a strange problem with only a Windows 2008 R2 model. When you use the built-in function "Start VM and wait" workflow to start a virtual machine (after conversion from a template either manually, or through workflow) NIC of the virtual machine (I tried VMXNET3 and e1000 times) does not connect to the problem. Vds can be replicated in a different VCenter, so spreading the vds. I also created several models of Windows 2008 r2 and all have this problem.

  If the model is converted and started outside VRO, it gets an IP from and is connected to the VDS immediately

  Tried add/remove the NIC of the model

  Tried to move the comments on different hosts

  Tried to create a new template from scratch

  NOTE: Windows 2012 R2 doesn't have this problem in the same circles, the only constant is the Windows 2008 R2 being started by VRO.

  Anyone seen this before?

  I found this article and it fixed my problem VMware KB: registration or the deployment of a virtual computer model fails apparently a fix a problem in ESX 5.1, 5.5 (I used the option to get around and things are good)