Bind Virtual Network Interfaces to the physical Interfaces

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• 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.

• Are virtual network Interfaces, vSwitches?

  Hi all

  I read the following document http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/dmz_virtualization_vmware_infra_wp.PDF

  And on page 7, where it says 'Set Layer 2 Security Options on virtual switches.
  Protection against attacks such as data snooping, sniffing and MAC spoofing by disabling the promiscuous mode, change MAC address and forged the capacity of transmissions on the virtual network interfaces. »

  How to interpret virtual network interfaces? Those are the vSwitches or group of ports VM?

  Thanks for your help,

  Those that are not the default values.  Change of MAC address: Rject and forged passes: rejection would be the default values.

  But before you change them - they don't automatically indicate a security problem - you need to know why they changed first.

• VIRTUAL network interface routed, is this possible?

  I have a 3560 which hangs a 6509. The next SVI s direct on the 3560:

  192.168.181.1(VLAN 192.168.180.1 (VLAN 180), 181), 192.168.182.1 (VLAN 182), 192.168.183.1 (VLAN 183), 192.168.184.1 (VLAN 183).

  I have the following routed interfaces between the 6509 (192.168.0.17/32 and the 3506 (192.168.0.18/32).)  Currently, I use a gateway of last resort to get the traffic off of the switch and a static route to send traffic to these IVS.

  I have a few VLANS that I use for vSpere and traffic of ESXI (239 (vMotion), 243 (Fault Tolerance), (250, iSCSIStorage), 254, ESXi), 255 network management).

  Is it possible to send these VIRTUAL networks through the routed interface?

  I have a few guests of ESXi requiring 254, 239 and 243 for vSphere features.

  Short answer is with the equipment you have not you cannot.

  What you can do is-

  (1) create a new vlan purely for the link between the switches and create an IVR for this vlan on each switch.

  The IPS for the Lass will be the IP addresses that you currently have on routed ports.

  (2) the link is a link to trunk and leave the new vlan and a VLAN that you want to extend for example. between the switches.

  The important thing here is to allow only on the trunk link the new vlan, and the VLAN that you extend.

  (3) the VLAN that you not extend ie. VLAN 180, 181 etc are not allowed on the trunk link and therefore will be always sent between switches across the new vlan because the Lass for this vlan have the IPs had initially allocated you to the ports of L3.

  Jon

• 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?

• VM network interfaces

  Hi all

  I'm banging my head. I have installed VM Workstation on my windows 2003 64 - bit PC. I also installed VMTools

  I installed Redhat on the side of the virtual machine.

  My network is 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.100

  for some reason, the VM has set up many different networks like 192.169.19.130 etc...

  I don't want to use, I want to use my 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.100 range and be able to ping back and fourth of my true operating system on my virtual computer.

  I think I messed up something.  I just want to use eth0, it's everything. I don't need the other interfaces.

  What can I do to restore the ability to ping and the true operating system VM commnicate?

  I get ping of VM to real operating system

  $ ping 192.168.0.97

  PING 192.168.0.97 (192.168.0.97) 56 (84) bytes of data.

  From 192.168.0.70 icmp_seq = 1 Destination Host Unreachable

  From 192.168.0.70 icmp_seq = 2 Destination Host Unreachable

  From 192.168.0.70 icmp_seq = 3 Destination Host Unreachable

  From 192.168.0.70 icmp_seq = 4 Destination Host Unreachable

  $ ifconfig - a | more

  eth0 Link encap HWaddr 00: 0C: 29:AA:FD:5 B

  INET addr:192.168.0.70 Bcast:192.168.0.255 mask: 255.255.255.0

  ADR inet6: fe80::20c:29ff:feaa:fd5b / 64 Scope: link

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 236989203 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets TX: 2700 errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:0

  RX bytes: 57083770330 (53.1 GiB) TX bytes: 269107 (262.7 KiB)

  Lo encap:Local Loopback link

  INET addr:127.0.0.1 mask: 255.0.0.0

  ADR inet6:: 1/128 Scope: host

  RACE of LOOPING 16436 Metric: 1

  Fall of RX packets: 13156 errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 13156 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:0

  RX bytes: 6045166 (5.7 MiB) TX bytes: 6045166 (5.7 MiB)

  peth0 Link encap HWaddr FE: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

  ADR inet6: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff / 64 Scope: link

  Don't forget that I've screwed around the virtual network adapter. I should of asked help b4 I screwed up things. I would appericate if anyone can help me get back on track

  Thank you

  Wow, I'm sure is glad you posted this because networking with in my VMware Workstation has been problematic.   Not so much to do outside NET that I've been using multiple interfaces, but the connection and communication between virtual machines has been problematic.  Is there something in the manual that you can suggest that I may have missed?   I have NAT had all the virtual machine and it seems to work a little on my personal system, but on my business system in the office - no dice.  Both are HP laptops and two of the virtual machine are the same.  I tried to imitate my settings on the virtual network editor but the end upward with IP conflict on two of the virtual machines in the office.

  Broad suggestions as to where I might start troubleshooting would be great.

• How to change the local IP on the virtual NETWORK adapter for Web server address

  Hi all

  I have a physical Windows system, on which I run VMware Workstation 9. Now on VMware I run Ubuntu 12.10 a LAMP for a Web server.
  Problem:
  Now, my local IP address for my NETWORK card virtual (using the Ubuntu one) at the address 192.168.159.7 and my router only emits the 10.0.0.x range IP addresses. So if I want to port forward to the virtual NETWORK adapter that has a 192.168 address, I can't, so my LAMP Web server are not accessible to the outside because the router does not send packets on port 80 to the virtual card... How to fix this?
  The only way I guess that is to be assigned an ip address of 10.0.0.x to the virtual NETWORK adapter?
  But how do I do this?
  I tried to do it on the host from the Windows machine with "get my IP address automatically", but she emits an 192.168 address every time...
  Thank you

  Welcome to the community,

  I guess that the virtual computer is currently configured to "NAT" or "Host-Only' networking! That would explain the 192.168.x.x IP address.

  There are 2 options to be able to access the web server on the virtual computer.

  1. with "NAT" network configured

  In this case forward port 80 to the IP address of the host and configure the port forwarding on the virtual computer in the "Virtual Network Editor. This way you can leave the IP address on the private network of 192 (if it is currently set to NAT)

  2. use "Bridged" network layout

  Reconfigure the virtual NETWORK adapter to the machine virtual networking "Bridged" within the parameters of the virtual machine, assign an IP address from your router network (10.x.x.x) and do the port forwarding on the router directly to the IP address of the virtual machine.

  André

• 12.04.01 Ubuntu x 86-putting in place a virtual Windows XP machine to access the physical disk

  Dear community,

  I'm new to VMware Workstation, but progressed in computer science.

  At first, I want to give you a brief introduction of my system and my goal.

  HP ProBook 6550 b (System with Intel Core i5 processor Intel-based)

  The HARD drive access mode: S - ATA AHCI

  Operating systems: Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 x 86, Ubuntu 12.04 x 64

  Boot Manager: GRUB2

  VMware Workstation (trial period) to 9.01 Linux x 86

  Goal: install MS Windows XP Professional with physical disk access several partitions on the hard drive local

  The installation of VMware Workstation 9.01 on my system Ubuntu 12.04 x 86 worked perfectly, without any error. Large.

  I was able to set up and run a Windows XP VM standard by creating a new virtual disk , following the Nice Wizard.

  It was just to test, but just after I tried to configure the same OS as a virtual machine using a physical disk (for advanced users) to directly access a local hard drive.

  Also, I selected "BusLogic (recommended)" on the choice of type of I/O controller.

  As a device, I chose the HARD internal laptop drive and used two individual partitions (the real partitions on my HARD drive I wanted access within the virtual machine).

  These partitions have been preformatted with NTFS (and not have been mounted in my Ubuntu).

  However, I was not sure if Windows XP has been will be installed on one of these partitions.

  The turn on/off the virtual machine to install the OS, I got the message following (msg1):

  "You are using a SCSI drive. Performance of dual-boot SCSI physical drives are poor. The installed operating system could not start correctly in the virtual machine. However, the physical SCSI disks work normally so exclusively in the virtual machine. »

  Just after the message following (msg2):

  "If you dual-boot a native Windows installation, problems can occur when attempting to start your system in VMware Workstation." For more information, see "http://vmware.com/info?id=128". "
  Click OK to continue, Cancel to power off.

  And finally this (msg3):

  «An error has occurred causing a virtual CPU go into the stop State.» If this anomaly had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine restart. The stop State are accessible by properly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system or a problem in VMware Workstation.
  Click OK to restart the virtual machine or Cancel to turn off the virtual machine. »

  I cannot explain the last error message and don't know what to do.

  After specifying msg2, I found information about possible problems in dual-boot environments, caused by different drivers for the IDE controller.

  So I tried to change the access mode to S - ATA AHCI HARD drive to S - ATA IDE in the BIOS to solve the problem.

  Unfortunately, I have had no success on this operation, because the error message appeared again, once I restarted the VM.

  Sorry, but I have no idea what goes wrong.

  In fact, I don't know what VMware workstation wants to do, when you install the system on a disc/physical partition to have direct access to the local hard disk.

  Because I don't see even the first screen of Windows Setup, there must be something wrong.

  Underlying product system issues and if it's a primary or logical partition?

  Need a complete unformated HDD?

  Only selected partitions are accessible within the virtual machine?

  Is the system installed itself on the selected partitions?

  Maybe some experienced users can help.

  Your help is welcome!

  Thank you.

  stanni

  First I use a raw disk to install Windows XP from a virtual machine, but if I had an existing installation, I would add the partition as a raw to be executed with a VM disk.

  Here's what I'd do...  Install Windows XP to a normal file based virtual machine, and then add a second disk as a raw disk with the partitions you want to join.  That's assuming that you really need not where what to start Windows XP natively and the physical partitions that access are used for data.  Also if need be add the raw disk as IDE.

• Impossible to locate or select network adapters in the virtual network editor - W2K8 host

  I am running VMware 2.0.1 on a W2K8 64-bit host (with the windows firewall is disabled for now). VM images are all able to start and use the network bridged the host connection. I can access these images of virtual computer on the network, and even each image virtual machine running on that host computer has access to the public network.

  My problem is that I have three network adapters available on the host, but I can't individually select one of them in the virtual network Editor. The "Automatic gateways" checkbox is grayed, outside, tab automatic bypass, and if I try to select an adapter to exclude none appear in the dialog 'Add adapters excluded' that opens. In the virtual network mapping tab VMnet0 host, is set to be filled to an automatically chosen adapter and VMnet1 & 8 are configured to use their default VMware network cards. If I open the selections from drop down menu to one of the network adapter 10 VMnets listed in the virtual network mapping tab host there is no available alternative.

  Note: three network cards available on my W2K8 host server, one of them is a fault tolerant team consisting of two individual adapters and two other network cards are not associated. The team of the adapter has a network on our local network connection, but the other two adapters are connected to a private network. The fact that the images of the virtual machine running on that host are available on the network and be able to use the network indicates to me that my VMnet0 connection automatically open is finding and using the adapters together somehow (Luckily, by design?).

  I installed VMware 1.X and 2.0 on many host W2K3 servers and never encountered this problem before.

  If Win2008 follows a similar to Vista security model, then you must run AS administrator virtual network Editor.  Otherwise, you cannot make changes selections.

• Aggregation of links ESXi requires the configuration of the physical switch?

  Hello

  I have two physical servers that I'll put up with ESXi. Each server has eight physical network cards. My plan is on each server to use:
  -2 management - connected to vSwitch0
  -2 for VMotion - connected to vSwitch1
  -2 for iSCSI - connected to vSwitch2 (I'll use a SAN)
  -2 to access VM network - connected to vSwitch3

  For each pair, a cable should be connected to switch1 and the second would be plugged into switch2.

  The switches are HP A5120 which are stacked into a big switch with RFID. for example I have a 'big' switch which, if one of the two physical switches dies or is turned off, would cause the 'great' switch to lose half of its ports. In this way, all four networks are expected to continue to operate even if a switch "dies."

  All the information I found online said that ESXi can have two physical cards attached to a unique vSwitch and can then do things smart for redundancy (in which case a physical NETWORK card dies) and load balanacing.

  However, while all the guides tell me how to configure it on ESXi, I'm still not sure if I should combine the two cables on the physical switches.

  So, my questions are:

  (1) in order to get the NIC or balancing working in ESXi, redundancy do I have to combine two physical ports that will connect connect two physical ports that connect to the vSwitch?

  (2) with the consolidation of NETWORK cards, I see how to have an active adapter for the management network, and an auxiliary card works fine, but for the iSCSI network, I wouldn't have only two active adapters for double the bandwidth?

  Any ideas would be much appreciated.

  Thank you.

  (1) in order to get the NIC or balancing working in ESXi, redundancy do I have to combine two physical ports that will connect connect two physical ports that connect to the vSwitch?

  No, there is no need to configure etherchannel/LACP but this will depend on the type of load balancing, you click on the ESXi host - if you use by default, you don't need to configure Etehrchannel/LACP since traffic for each virtual network interface will be only com ove a single physical port, but you will always have the reiciliency to the case where if one of the physical NIC fails traffic then released the remaining port

  If you select the hash of the IP load balancing, you must then implement Etherchannel/LACP on your physical switch since traffice can come form any physical port in the team.

  (2) with the consolidation of NETWORK cards, I see how to have an active adapter for the management network, and an auxiliary card works fine, but for the iSCSI network, I wouldn't have only two active adapters for double the bandwidth?

  Onece well once again it will depend on the Load Balancing method, you select, but you will never be able to create links physical ports to get all of the 2 GB =

  I also moved it to a more appropriate forum-

• How to set a specific MAC address for a virtual NETWORK adapter in ESXi 4.1?

  I would like to move a virtual machine to another server ESXi, but I saw every time I use the converter, it changes the MAC of the virtual network interface! Also if I copy the virtual machine to a vmware 2.0 server the same thing happens. Is it possible to keep the same address in another computer and turn off the virtual machine from the first computer source to avoid conflicts of mac?

  Thank you.

  Using the converter, you'll always end up with a different MAC address. If you just want to "pass" the virtual machine, you can use utilities like of Veeam FastSCP.

  Another option is to set up a MAC address in the network settings of the virtual machine. After conversion, you can reset the MAC address to the value of "old."

  For some hosted VMware products (such as Workstation and Server maybe player) there's a vmx ethernetX.checkMACAddress = "FALSE" setting that allows you to set any MAC address you want to. For more information, see http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network-advanced.html.

  André

• Hot cloning - let the physical server running then?

  I have a question for the Vmware Converter. If I understand correctly, you can use hot Clone to clone a physical server while it is running. Of course, that seems very well so you don't get no downtime during conversion.

  But, if the reason for this conversion is to migrate from physical to virtual, what happens if the physical server continues to operate after the conversion? Even just a minute can be enough to have changed the original system, perhaps a database or other stuff, that will make the new virtual instance "incorrect."

  So how does this normally? If you want to virtualize a server that has a system that interacts with users either or other servers, how will stop instantly change?

  OK, even if you are in your downtime window it would be preferable to perform the validation of the server application.

  What we normally do, is check the event logs and do well for sure there no new errors that are produce after the p2v (physical 2 virtual), especially application or system related event.  We will also perform a few reboots of the (virtual) system and sometimes we also had to remove some old drivers.  We have sometimes came across problems with NETWORK cards keeping the old ipconfig when migrating.

  When supply us the new VM give us it a whole new value of intellectual property and test it with the other physical system down.  After correct validation go us ahead and leave the virtual running.  We usually have to master the physical machine in the datacenter for about two weeks and then begin the process of decommissioning.

  One thing most definitely, you want to do is make sure to install vmware tools on the virtual server.  I know it's probably obvious, but many people forget.

  Hope this helps,

  Chad King

• Virtual network config

  How set up my network LM4 using a closed network and not change the IP address of the virtual machine?

  The physical network config is pretty simple, and I can create a fence where the virtual machine gets a new IP address of the static pool, but I can't work on the creation of a fence without impacting on IP of the virtual machine.

  This should be a common configuration, but it seems to me to miss something.

  You can configure the VM with static IP address.

  StarWind Software R & D

• Manage virtual networks in vmware player on Linux Mint

  Hi all

  Can someone point out how manage virtual networks on the Vmware player on Ubuntu/Linux mint?

  It would have been more useful if you had included the VMware Player version and the version of the host operating system that you are using!

  Since you didn't say what version of VMware Player or a version of the host OS, I can only say what follows if applies to what I the test and this is VMware Player 5.0.2 under Ubuntu 13.04.

  In a Terminal, run the following command (Tip: copy / paste, as is, to avoid typos.):

  sudo ln-s/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-netcfg/usr/bin/vmware-netcfg

  Now to bring up the virtual network editor use the following command in a Terminal:

  sudo vmware-netcfg

  Note that you can get an error message similar to the following:

  (vmware-netcfg: #): IBUS-WARNING *: the owner of /home/$USER/.config/ibus/bus is not root! »

  This seems to be a bug , but I do not think that this will affect the actual use of the virtual network Editor.

• Impossible to networking of bridge circuit (with teamed NETWORK adapter on the host)

  Hello

  I use VMWARE Workstarion (last version 7).

  I installed Windows Server 2008 64 bit on the virtual computer and setting up my NIC as "bridged". The problem is that I don't have access to the Internet and I can't connect to this virtual machine to a workstation in a network through the remote desktop utility.

  I tried to use the "NAT" networking and in this case, I have access to the Internet, but I did not see the virtual machine from the network. I asked for help on the forums and the solution was to use "bridged" rather than "NAT".

  My host (Windows Server 2003 64-bit) I teamed NIC , and this seems to be the issue.

  Does anyone know a solution?

  Thank you

  M.R.

  The default port for RDP (Remote Desktop) protocol is 3389, so what follows assumes that the host is not also configured to RDP still port 3389 is open.  In the virtual network editor on the dialog box entering card Port , you will define the host port: and port of the VM: to 3389 and make sure that no firewall rule to allow TCP connections on that port on the host and the guest.

  Go to the virtual network editor and VMnet8 select the NAT settings... button.

  In the NAT settings dialog box, click the Add button and fill the incoming Port map dialog.

  However it should be clear enough if you have any questions, just ask.