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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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• 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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• cannot change the network not jumpered it is no host not bridged network adapters

  Hey guys, wondering that if you can help me with this, I've upgraded to windows 10 and have this annoying issue in vmware workstation 11

  I want to VMnet2 only use my MIFI wifi and not my regular internet so I went to the virtual network editor like I did before and added vmnet2 but when I check the box for height to select the wifi it says "can't change network to not bridged there is no host not bridged network adapters" which has left me speechless >. <

  Just a guess. Check vmnet0 (default bridged network) to see if it uses a dedicated, network adapter or is it still set to automatic.

  André

• How many network adapters I - ESXi 4.1 with iSCSI

  I was wondering if someone could help me give a sense the news I read on # NIC for ESXi 4.1.  I came across the following article, but I'm not sure I understand all parts of traffic that he speaks:

  http://livingonthecloud.blogspot.com/2009/09/ESXi-networking-best-practices.html

  At the moment I have 6 cards 1 GB on each of my 3 servers.  I connect to my SAN via iSCSI, so I know I'm going to need at least 2 of these network adapters for that traffic. I know I'll need at least 2 NICs for connection between my ESXi server and my switch to the network of the VM.  What I don't understand is what I really need for the VMKernel FT, VMkernal Vmotion and VMKernal the Network Administration.  I do not plan on using Vmotion very often at all, so I'm not concerned about its impact on my network.

  Any advice?  I need to replace my double NICs with Quad NIC card or is it exaggerated?

  The management doesn't have a dedicated network card. It can share the network with virtual machines cards.

  In this case the following configuration would be interesting:

  vSwitch0: (3 NIC uplinks) (assuming vmnic0, vmnic1 vmnic2)

  Port group 1 - networking (vmnic0 and vmnic1-> active vmnic2,-> stand-by)

  Port group 2 - network of the VM (vmnic0 and vmnic1-> active vmnic2,-> stand-by)

  Port 3 - VM Network Group (vmnic0 and vmnic1-> stand-by, vmnic2-> active)-for the "Pervasive SQL.

  vSwitch1: (1 NIC/uplink)

  Port group 1 - VMkernel for vMotion on a separate network (192.168.x.x)

  vSwitch2: (2 cards network/links rising)

  configuration by following the best practices of your iSCSI storage provider

  In this way the "Pervasive SQL" would have a dedicated NIC (vmnic2) and may switch to another NETWORK card in the event of disruption of the network.

  André

• Advice on how best to configure the network adapters and virtual switch in ESX host

  I'm new to VMware and am its implementation.  I got my training a few weeks ago, and now I'm configing my hosts.  I have 3 guests, each have 2 network cards.  There is a virtual switch that ESX creates when it is installed (vSwtich0).  The books said that it is advisable to delete the VM network port of virtual machine that is assigned to the value group default virtual switch and put it on another virtual switch so that you keep your management network separated from the network of the vm for performance and security.  If I do this, all my virtual machines will have to go to 1 NIC b/c I only have 2 NICs per host.  I thought that I have just to keep all my groups of ports on the default vSwitch0 and add my second NETWORK adapter so that I can take advantage of the Association of NICs for redundancy and load balancing.  However, I'm not sure on the performance and the security risks.  Do you have any ideas or advice?  I could also create two virtual switches and put my virtual machines on one which would have a NETWORK card dedicated and put my service and Kernal VM console on another virtual switch with a dedicated network card.  However, in this scenario, I have no fault tolerance or load balancing.  We are a small shop and we have about 10-15 VMs on each host.  I don't have access to b/c distributed switching we paid only for the company (not more).  Thank you.

  Hi and welcome to the forums,

  With 10-15 VMs per box and I guess that I would seriously consider adding two extra cards for each host in the production machines. You could then do something like:

  vSwitch0 - vmnic0, vmnic2, vmnic3 - Console of Service, VM LAN network

  vSwitch1 - vmnic1 - VMkernel

  That would give you redundancy and performance to access your hosts (SC) and also for all your virtual machines. The VMkernel would get a NETWORK card dedicated for vMotion and could be on a separate network. He didn't need redundancy really as if the NIC sank the only issue is that you cannot vmotion virtual machines. In this case you would just move one of the NIC workgroup through to those switches manually.

  If you only have 2 network cards, then I would say having a vSwitch with two attached network adapters and VLAN the VMkernel may be off. I want absolutely to the redundancy of having two cards together.

  Hope this helps,

  Dan

• ESXi 3.5 U5 - best practices for the collection of NETWORK adapters

  Hello

  I'm using ESXi 3.5 U5 installed on a Dell PowerEdge R710.

  This server has 4 NETWORK cards

  I want team two network adapters to the default value 0 of the Virtual Switch.

  What are the best practices to achieve this?

  mdsuser wrote:

  I want team two network adapters to the default value 0 of the Virtual Switch.

  What are the best practices to achieve this?

  It depends on what you want to achieve. Fault tolerance, the aggregation?

  Take a look at this document from VMware.

  If you use your search engine of the day and throw it into the words "VMware ESX" and add circuits or consolidation, there will be some hits on various blogs showing solutions to different hardware (in collaboration with Cisco, HP switches).

  Addition:

  This page will also give you an overview of the different types of networking topics virtual.

• 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.

• 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).

• Network adapters and VLAN (optional) shaded in DCUI

  I'm studying for my VCP exam and I use a nested in workstation installation. Suddenly I don't have access to the network adapters in the DCUI. I've migrated the two network interface cards used for the management of a group of management vmkernel ports in a distributed switch.

  Anyone know what is happening here? Google gave me this indication Configure networking Greyed in DCUI
  

  But in my case, the hosts are always connected to vCenter and work fine no problems anywhere.

  

  As you migrate your management VMkernel service VDS, all virtual switch tasks, including managament VMkernel configuration interfaces / VLAN must be done on vDS and not on ESXi.

• Not available to add to Distributed vSwitch to hosts/physical adapters

  It's probably something simple, I forgot, but have not been able to understand...

  Learning of vSphere 5.5 via Virtualization VM Workstation 9. Have many functional things already, to the point where I now both hosts ESXi, datastore iSCSI via standard vSwitches etc. No cluster, but everything works as expected.

  Currently distributed vSwitches research. I am trying to create one, but facing the question that I see not available to add to the hosts/physical adapters dvSwitch... Nothing appears in the list, nor does anything appear under "View Incompatible Hosts", so I can only continue when I choose "add hosts later." It is through vCenter Client and/or vCenter Web Client connected to the server vCenter.

  The two hosts of ESXi have 5 network cards. They have all been used in vSwitches for VMS, the iSCSI management..., so I decided to add an additional NETWORK card for each. I rebooted, ESXi, each of them guests show their new unused NIC under Configuration > network cards... This don't change nothing, always do not appear when you add hosts to the dvSwitch. I also tried to put in a standard vSwitch first on each ESXi host, with no difference. So I thought that maybe you can't see adapters hosts/physics to add to a dvSwitch after that that they have been added to a cluster, so I quickly created a cluster, added two ESXi hosts, no difference. I changed the version of the dvSwitch to 4, 5.5... I tried different settings to maximum number of physical cards by the host from 1 to 8... Nothing helps.

  I hope that I have reason to believe that you can add network individual cards of the hosts who also already have some network cards as used in standard vSwitches uplink adapters?

  Any comments appreciated,

  JH

  -

  Haha... It is even stupider than I thought.

  In order to tackle another question I got one a few days ago, I created a data center extra, with a very similar name. I moved all hosts of this new centre of data at any given time. But when I tried to create the distributed vSwitch, I accidentlly rightclicked the OLD Datacenter (empty). No host there to select a list empty... so of COURSE every time.

  Can someone slap me hard, please?

  JH

• Grouping of active/active network adapters

  I have two 6509 cisco switch

  I have configured the two physical network adapters on ESX 4.1 as active/active and they are connected to a NIC in each switch.

  That way I have more flow?

  How ESX handles the traffic in the pool of active/active NETWORK adapters?

  NickHorton wrote:

  As I understand it, (even once that caveat, not a network) you cannot extend a vswitch on switch ports without a violation of the spanning tree protocols that disables anything but a port UNLESS your links aggregation switches battery cross. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.

  You are right. There is some confusion of terms only.

  There is a network standard called 802.3ad (working group name) or 802.1AX (real name now, but the name sticks around the working group.) This explains how two units may group several links together and logically to treat them as one. On Cisco switches, this is called an 'association' on the HP Procurve switches, this is called a 'trunk', and on most servers, this is called a "NIC team." On ESX, it is called "IP hash.

  Both parties must be configured to do so, otherwise the same MAC address is displayed both on different ports and this would cause various problems, including trouble of Spanning Tree, but also other things.

  The 802.3ad has two modes, a static configuration, or dynamics of the aggregation of links. The static method is quite simple, the two sides should only be configured manually. When you use dynamic a certain protocol called LACP is used to negotiate it. Cisco also has its own propertiary Protocol PaGP that does the same thing.

  The host ESX/ESXi only has support for aggregation of static links, so this must also be set on the side of the physical switch.

  The 802.3ad/802.1AX does not specify HOW loads should be balanced across the available links. It is up to the different units to decide and it could very well be different on two sides of it without problem.

  Various switches (physics and also the Vmware vSwitch) uses a method that includes IP addresses in the source and the destination to choose a NIC out this load balancing works well and is quite simple to do, but the boundaries a session between two periods of investigation to a single network adapter. If the connection fails, it will go to another.

  Some switches have the possibiliy to use more advanced algorithms to do this, including for example src/dst IP and also the TCP port numbers. It is more "expensive" to do what the package should be inspected deeper and also cause more general CPU, but will allow the load between two IP hosts use multiple network interface cards. It is not supported on the standard vSwitch or the distributed switch, but on the 3rd party Nexus 1000v.

  However, all methods is the aggregation of links, some differences in how to place images on the network adapters.

  As for using two different physical switches standard does not allow this. Aggregated links must begin and end between the two groups. However, several switch suppliers (for example, Cisco and HP) formed their own solutions for this, called stacked Switch Etherchannel or Trunking distributed for example.

  IF you have these switches with this function and if set up correctly on the side of the switch, you can for example set four vmnic "hash IP" on your ESX/ESXi and connect these two physical switches. This would probably be the best combination of fault tolerance and load balancing.

• Intel NETWORK adapters 4-Port unknown

  I recently installed VMware vSphere 4 ESXi custom on a T610 Dell Dell.  I used the custom construction of Dell, 181792.  This server has 2 Broadcom network adapters on board and a 4 Port 1Gbe Intel NIC after installation, I noticed that the Intel NETWORK card did not show upward.

  So, I used the tool to update host and installed (vmware-esx-drivers-net-igb_400.1.3.19.12.1-1.0.4.164009.185976) Intel NETWORK card drivers.  These installed fine and when I rebooted, I see 4 network cards.  But instead of listening to the make and model above the NICs, it shows them as 'unknown '.

  Is it nothing to worry?  What he would show the map in this way?  I'm not entirely sure of what piece it has on it, as far as I know is the part of Dell:

  "Copper Intel Quad port x 4 PCIe GbE NIC card (P/n-H092P)"

  As a side question, I went with the generation of Dell custom that oppose the use of generate 4.0 U1.  What are the advantages/disadvantages to the use of the custom provider built?  I assume of course that the management agents.  But is there a downside?  Any reason why I won't use the generic version instead?

  Thank you.

  Matt

  There are 2 files used by ESXi for drivers and display names.  /etc/VMware/simple.map tells ESXi which driver to load for PCI devices.   / etc/VMware/PCI. IDS is used to display data in the client vSphere tho console and the vCLI.   Your question is likely the correct data are missing in pci.ids and this is only a cosmetic problem.  As long as the machines received one identifying vmnic and the driver is loaded properly things will work fine.

  It is best to stick with the installation image specific seller that you get the best suppliers of the ICD for the material.  The downside is that these ISOs own tend to lag behind a bit based on their release date.  Updates that you install will include specific CIM providers seller so once you used the vendor install image you will be OK to use the regular updates.

  Dave

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• T450s: Hosted network feature not supported?

  I have a ThinkPad T450s bought in Dec 2015 with Windows 10 Pro. It has the Intel AC 7265 wireless card. I am trying to use the hosted network feature Windows to use the laptop as a hotspot for other devices, but I can't make it work.

  When I open an administrator command prompt and run "netsh wlan show drivers", the parameter ' hosted network supported:' has the value 'no '.

  I tried updating the wireless network card driver via the tool companion of Lenovo, via the Intel driver update utility and Windows via the Device Manager. The wireless driver has been updated to version 18.330.1 dated dated 05-01-2016. Then, I rebooted the machine but still no improvement. The characteristic hosted network shows as not supported. I also tried showing the devices hidden in Device Manager but under network adapters, there is no virtual card listed Microsoft hosted network.

  Is this a driver problem? Anyone with a broadcast network animated T450s as being taken in charge?

  Thank you

  Well, I found a solution on the Intel community forum: https://communities.intel.com/message/327193. A couple of users in this thread (the one with a Lenovo X 1 carbon) suggested to use an older version of 18.11 18.12 driver. So that's what I did and it worked! Here are my actual steps:

• No compatible network adapters were found - UCSC C220 M3S

  Hi all

  I'm a little new to Cisco servers so here my question.

  I tried to install esxi on our new server C220 M3S.

  But after installation I'm coming to the esxi screen, it says "no compatible network adapters found. Please consult... "

  Any suggestions to what could be the problem?

  I tried to install different versions of the custom image to esxi Cisco (5.5 5.1 5.0) with the same result.

  / Thomas

  Hi Thomas,

  It is possible that the optionROM for the integrated card is not activated.  Try to enable it in the BIOS, you can do so via the MMIC (see attached cimc_enable_optionrom). You also want to verify that this option gets enable in the bios.  You can enter the bios by pressing f2 during boot (see BIOS_Option_ROM)

  Also if these are disable, you need to browse again the installation.   See the custom image link below for ESXi 5.5 Cisco.  I noticed that you are using ESXi 5.5 Update 1, but this is not yet supported.

  Download CISCO Custom Image for ESXi 5.5.0 GA

  Download CISCO Custom Image for ESXi 5.5.0 GA

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/details?ProductID=353&downloadGroup=OEM...