ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 Free Edition and Jumbo frames

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• ESXi 5 and Jumbo frames

  What is the proper way to configure some jumbo frames for an ESXi cluster used shared storage NetApp?  Configure extended frames to the bottom of the VM Guest NETWORK card or I stop at the dvSwitch?  I already configure jumbo images throughout the storage on the physical hardware.  It's just the virtual machine where I'm not sure and if I do not set up the virtual machine, will there be problems?

  Thank you!!

  Then, you don't need to do anything for the virtual machines.

• question of vMotion iSCSI and jumbo frames

  Hello

  I have a cluster ESXi 4.1 using vCenter and a SAN MD3200i.  I'll do an upgrade to optimize the installation, which includes the installation of four NIC ports in hosts that will be used for iSCSI.  I struggle to enable frames or not, but if I do, I just want to do for the iSCSI, at least for now.  Currently, the maps iSCSI network on the hosts and the MD3200 iSCSI connections are connected to two switches separated, although I have seven other switches in the building connected to the PC, printers, etc.  What I only turn frames on two switches that iSCSI is connected, or do I have to enable frames on all my switches?  There is a Dell 2724 and eight 6224Ps of Dell.  ISCSI is connected to the 2724 and one from the 6224Ps.

  The two switches that are connected to the iSCSI ports are not dedicated iSCSI switches; they have other devices on them, but I can only enable the frames extended globally on the switch.  Would there be any problem allowing the frames extended on the switches, otherwise all connected devices are configured for them?

  Another question about vMotion: I will create four ports on each host for iSCSI vmkernel.  Currently, there is also a port configuration vmkernel for traffic management and vMotion.  Is it possible to set up each of the four iSCSI for vMotion vmkernel channels, or should I leave it configured on the port of vmkernel management?

  Thank you!

  Sure. If you're going to enable Jumbo frames, you need to have dedicated switches for that, or a switch that may have different units MTU on their ports.

• Airport Extreme Gigabit Ethernet and Jumbo frames

  Hi all.

  Can anyone support me kindly about Gigabit Ethernet & Jumbo Frames with Airport Express?

  I currently have and use a 5th generation Airport Express and you want to buy the QNAP TS - 453 Pro NAS. In any implementation of storage NAS, Gigabit Ethernet, the frames extended as matching Ethernet card well, are all very important to achieve broadband performance, so my questions are:

  5th generation Airport Express

  
  

  • Are the NETWORK Gigabit NIC Ethernet card?
  • It also works with extended frames (QNAP NAS supports 4074, 9000 and 7418 bytes for MTU)?
  • QNAP can trunk NIC (if more then one) with the following options:
    • IEEE 802.3ad (dynamic link aggregation)
    • Balance-tlb (Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing)
    • Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing)
    • others (mainly for failover)

  Is 5th generation Airport Express enough or should I think about moving to the 6th generation?

  Thank you.

  You mix up the terminology... Express and Extreme are totally different.

  The title is correct... Extreme... your question text replaces by Express... they are only 10/100... and gen only 2 of them.

  Any airport extreme Gen2 - Gen6

  Use the Gigabit ports.

  Do not support jumbo frames

  Do not support pairing.

• EqualLogic SAN and Jumbo frames

  I can't get the jumbo frames to work on our Equallogic PS6000.  We have the following configuration PS6000-> Dell PowerConnect 6248 (bunk)-> Windows 2008 Server.

  The network cards on the SAN has been set at 9000 MTU, ports on switches are set to MTU 9216 and the NIC on Server 2008 is fixed to 9014 with active RX & Tx flow control.

  When the server connects to the SAN, newspapers account connection iSCSI target to the initiator "172.21.X.X:3260, iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-xxxxxxxxxxx-23a001a955452af6-server1" ' 172.21.X.X:49156, iqn.1991 - 05.com.microsoft:server1' managed, using the length of the standard framework.

  When I ping the SAN of Server 2008 with a shitload of 8972 bytes, it works very well.

  C:\Users\system>ping 172.21.x.x f-l 8972
  Ping 172.21.x.x with 8972 bytes of data: reply from 172.21.x.x: bytes = 8972 times<1ms ttl="255" reply="" from="" 172.21.x.x:="" bytes="8972"><1ms ttl="255" reply="" from="" 172.21.x.x:="" bytes="8972"><1ms ttl="255" reply="" from="" 172.21.x.x:="" bytes="8972"><1ms ttl="">

  Why 8972?  Told that some genius on the internet.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Well we got it to work.  On Server 2008, we have Broadcom and Intel network adapters.  For our tests, we were just using the Broadcom NIC.  Properties Advanced NETWORK adapter, we initially have the value package Jumbo 9014 and it did not work.  So, we opened the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite that came with the NIC and searched and found that there are two parameters that need to be addressed.  There is a jumbo packet definition which has been set at 9014, which is what we wanted it in the advanced NIC Properties.  There is another parameter, MTU, which can be seen on the advanced NIC Properties.  It has been set at 1500.  Once we define to 9000, frames jumbo started working.  We then uncabled Broadcom NIC and wired the card NETWORK Intel and the value of frames 9014 on advanced network adapter properties.  Once we have that frame has worked on this NETWORK adapter, no other measures were needed.  If it's working now.  Thanks to everyone for their help.

• vMotion and Jumbo frames

  Enabling Jumbo frames ever advantage vMotion traffic bad? We will migrate out of our HP EVA on Netapp Storage soon. Currently, we are a single Fibre Channel shop now, but consider using NFS on Netapp only to align virtual machines (recommendation of Netapp Professional Services to increase the speed of the mbralign of a Linux VM).

  As we will only use really based on IP storage for the storage of virtual machine production, someone suggests to go even bother to change the size of the MTU on our switches and virtual switches?

  We are currently using 4.0U1 ESX and vCenter 4.0U1 but will be upgrading to 4.1 ASAP.

  I have never heard or read something about enabling Jumbo frames for vMotion. I don't think it's even a supported configuration.

  There are docs on activation of traffic iSCSI Jumbo frames. Most say, there is no advantage to 1 GBit networks but a significant advantage for 10 Gbps networks.

  André

• TSO and jumbo frames

  Hi guys

  Question: to enable frames and TSO.

  Needs active on ESX Jumbo frames, but not OSI?

  The two needs enhanced VMXnet adapter in VM and much-needed replacement NIC so it wasn't EV adapter?

  no support for iSCSI on frames?

  Also only windows 2003 entperprise (in the range of windows server familty products) supports these features?

  Thanks in advance

  See you soon

  The enhanced vmxnet (or vmxnet2) is avaible in ESX 3.5 and 4.0.

  The vmxnet3 only in 4.0

  André

• ESXi 4 has Jumbo frame support?

  I am about to install a "Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-200r NAS' for use with a server ESXi 4 using iSCSI.

  This device supports Jumbo frame support and hoping that ESX does as well, anyone know?

  Thank you

  Rob

  I'm not sure I understand how to make a big gain - with 1500 byte MTU, it's already better than 97% (38-byte header).  Of course, there will be a reduction in the treatment of overhead (CPU utilization should be reduced a little) but toe should alleviate a lot of this - ESX (i) uses ToE?

  Unfortunately the jumbo frames are a feature under license, see here.

• How to correctly record the ESXi 4.0 and vSphere Client for free?

  Hello everyone.

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  of free VMware ESXi 4.0? I am totally confused with the process I

  certainly do not understand.

  My goal is to install and use ESXi

  4.0 and manage via vSphere client with free licenses free of charge for

  more than 60 dayes. Is it possible?

  Installation of its products

  gone without problems, but failed to save. I found a few

  suggestion on other threads, but nothing helped. Give me a hand please,

  I will be grateful.

  I'll write what I did:

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  8. I would like to record my ESXi 4 software installed and the vSphere Client. Of
     I chose the vSphere Client Menu: help - & gt; VMware on the web - & gt;
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  As I wrote, I'm confused. How to correctly record the ESXi 4.0 and vSphere Client? What I did wrong and how to fix?

  To register the serial number in your ESX4i host

  Home-> inventory-> higher level (your ESXi host)

  Tab Configuration

  Left side - features licensed

  Edit-> Assign new key for this host-> Enter Key

  Paste your key

  Confirm all

  Your ESXi server is now fully licensed

  Note: you no longer have the basic features and all the enterprise features that came with a trial license are no longer valid

  Maish

  Architect of virtualization & Systems Administrator

  http://technodrone.blogspot.com

• Certificates on ESXi free edition

  I use the free version of ESXi 4.1 on a box of spares for a test environment.  Since the vCLI/vMA does read-only for ESXi free edition, how can I replace the SSL certificate with those signed by a certification authority?  I tried to use curl to PUT files to the server (page 172 of the Guide of the ESXi Setup), but it gives me a 403 forbidden error.  The curl command I used was:

  $ cat rui.key: curl - verbose - insecurity - u root: REDACTED-t-- https://ESXi.local/host/ssl_key

  Any thoughts out there of experts?

  Kind regards

  Chris

  You can enable ssh & to use scp protocol for transferring files (winscp, fastscp...)

• Upgrade to ESXi free edition to the essential

  I bought VmWare Essentials.  I have 3 guests that I need to upgrade.  2 guests have ESXi 4.0 and 1 host ESXi 4.1.  I downloaded and installed the Vcenter server on a Windows 2003 64-bit, Server server and do not know what steps I have to take for my host machines.  I host machines begin from an internal USB drive and then all the VMS sit on a RAID5 with 2 data warehouses.  I want to assure you that I will not lose one of my virtual machines.  My question is just to install the new key license or do I have to download 4.1 and reinstall the USB?  Any help would be greatly appreciated so that I am using what I bought.

  The addition of the license key is all that is necessary. You will lose all data.

• ESX i4 free edition to manage by VCenter 5.5

  Hey,.

  I've got ESX server free edition 4.1 and I recently bought essential kit of ESX.

  I want to update my esx server, but first back up all my virtual machines.

  is it possible to do except turn off the virtual machines?

  I thought to add the host as it is (free edition) to vcenter 5.5 and their cloning of virtual machines, but no luck with that, is it possible at all?

  Thanks for the help!

  Alon

  Oh right sorry, forgot that, as he used to work with free ESXi earlier

  During the upgrade, there is not a single were you can really do something wrong:

  It will ask you to upgrade or new install.

  The pre-selected and correct answer is "upgrade and preserve the VMFS datastore ', so that your virtual machines them will not be deleted.

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• I can't remove Avast - free edition. I get a msg that task cannot be performed.

  I can't remove Avast - free edition. I get a msg that task cannot be executed

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  Try to use this tool to uninstall Avast.

  http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility

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  2 do you have. which antivirus software installed now?

  You can try to uninstall the anti-virus AVG AVG remover tool software.

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• target drive more disk space during installation of AVG free edition 2011.

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