ESXi 4.1 - DRS & vSwitch NIC w/Zero

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• Deleted vswitch NIC...

  OK, so a little something stupid happened.  We were testing how to react the virtual machines if we have lost the network connection.  Unfortunately, the resulting network cards removed the vswitch.  lost complete connection to the host.  Stupid.Stupid.Stupid. I can't even ssh into the box.  anything I can do to get it back? or am I lost and the need to rebuild?

  Vmkping 10.1.0.2 on host ESXi work? If not, check the configuration/uplinks on the vSwitch for NAS VMKernel port group and the Group of port itself.

  André

• ESXi 4.1 HP DL380G7 NIC cross!

  Hello

  This is my first thread here, and I am fairly new to ESXi and VMware. Have implemented the server into the row object with ESXi 4.1 (Essentials). The machine has 4 integrated network cards and an extra card to card 4 NETWORK ports. Integrated NICS are allocated to virtual machines and works very well.

  Meanwhile, I managed somehow allow 4 additional ports to pass through. I wonder how I can now assign them to a virtual machine. Directly connected to the virtual-host computer with my vSphere client, nor with the vSphere client connected to my server vCenter (on another machine) I can assign them - they are not in the list of available adapters.

  Anyone with a Tip 4 me?

  Thanks in advance, Dirk

  Hopefully this kb should work for you.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1010789

• Install ESXI embedded will not recognize NIC

  I tried to install a server ESXI embedded last night, but the facility when it does not recognize that there is a network card installed.

  I have a network card added, it's the value connected and connect to power on.  At the beginning I wanted to set up all my virtual machines in a network segment local so I thought maybe it was the question so I turned off the VM and changed the NETWORK card to one host adapter, but the installation always fails with the same error.

  Does anyone else have this problem?  The installation cannot continue without detect a network card.

  I already have a virtual 2008R2 domain controller and NETWORK adapter works fine.

  Welcome to the community,

  ESXi you selected as the guest in the Wizard New VM operating system. The virtual NETWORK card model that is used/created for the virtual machine depends on the selection of the OS. Open the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file to see what kind of NETWORK card has been created and add ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" if it does not exist. If you want to manually change the file mark .vmx that tab of the virtual machine in VMware Workstation is closed, so that the configuration file is reread once you are done with editing.

  André

• ESXi 5 storage DRS

  We are implementing the storage for a two DRS vSphere hosts 5 (HP Image 5.0.0 623860). It connects to an MSA of CF P2000. To save space, we were thin-provisoning the OS C: VMDK. Research indicates that there may be problems with space reclaimation. Are there problems with VMWare, recovery of space on thin virtual machines? DRS will move the vms correctly if they are thin and recover the space that has been used? Are there any pitfalls to know (in addition to the surveillance of space and setting alarms)?

  Thank you very much in advance for any help.

  Well think of provisioning is officially supported, it does not actually - DRS for storage was never designed for VMDK thin-set in service.

  It is trivial to reproduce:

  1. create a 10 GB data store and put a thin-provisioned 20 GB on this prompt.  You'll see it works.  Remove comments

  2 create a cluster DRS from storage and put the same data store in it.  Try to create thin-provisioned comments again and you will see that it fails.

  It is documented in http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2017605

  If the total size of the fully allocated space does not exceed the size of the data store, you can only thin-provision guests.  Why you would be thin provision in this situation is beyond me.

  This restriction also if you deduplication of data warehouses.  DTS is not actually consider the free space of data warehouses - it looks like the sum of the size put into service of the VMDK compared to the size of the data warehouse.

• Cannot install ESXI 5 on DELL R720 (NIC not found)

  Hello

  I read that I need to download the patch for the Broadcom onboard network card and I did.

  I don't know what now? to unpack the patch on my PC?

  can you please guide me how to use the patch with the ESXI ISO?

  BTW, why DELL do not have a customization ESXI 5.0 like HP, Cisco and others?

  Thank you!!

  Dothan.

  There is a cd of dell custom

  When looking for drivers select vmware or esx as the guest operating system.

  Here is the link:http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/DriverFileFormats?DriverId=PHTJP&FileId=2988919716&productCode=poweredge-r320&urlProductCode=False

  I also added to my page: http://sparrowangelstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/08/dell-customized-esxi-iso.html

• ESXi and NetXen 4port NC375T NIC

  Apparently, are supported for this card was released with ESXi 3.5 U5.  However, my box of ESXi running ESXi 4 U1 does not appear to support it.  I know that the card is detected because I can see it by looking at the screen "Set up Passthrough".  Does anyone else have this card works in an ESXi 4 machine?

  You can keep an eye here because their driver can be found here - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4#drivers_tools.  Have you checked their website to download it?

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

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  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to Officieux VMDirectPath HCL.

• 9 - ESXi 5.1 workstation reviews and 10 GbE NIC

  OK, I have a beefy machine running Windows Server 2012 VMW Workstation 9. The machine has a dual 1 GB NIC and dual port 10GBe NIC

  All the features of the CPU are enabled in the i7 CPU 3820, so everything is running 64-bit stuff.

  I have 2 machines virtual esxi connected to the card of 1 GB automatically filled. The virtual NETWORK card is "el1000" are in a Cluster, 2 nodes of course vCenter.

  Each esxi is connected to a target iSCSI with a 200 GB LUN.

  In each of the 2 VM esxi, I have 1 Windows 2008 R2 VM, one in each VM esxi. The two Windows 2008 R2 VM are on the iSCSI LUN.

  The Windows 2008 R2 VM 2 is connected to the each host esxi, the 1 GB vswitch vswitch.

  Launch t Windows 2008 R2 VM fine. Performance is as expected because they are only connected iSCSI LUNS to the 1 GB card.

  While the configuration works as expected.

  Since it worked, I decided, we will use 10GBe NIC so I disassembled all the iSCSI LUN and removed the adpter iSCSI iSCSI target in both machines virtual esxi. I'm to a 'Raw' build if you want.

  Because I don't have a DAC SFP connection + 10GBe switch, I put a looping SFP + and everything was now pings to 10GBe port.

  Since my objective was the LUN to a 1 GB NIC/subnet, I redirected the LUN target to the subnet in the subnet/10GBe NIC.

  Everything was to pings to the 10GBe. Great huh?

  Next, I added a new vmnic6 in workstation 9 in "Virtual Network Editor" and "Bridged" vmnic6 to the 10GBe NIC, then I added a NETWORK card as a 'vmxnet3"to each VM esxi, then configured a vswitch in each VM esxi. No problem. I see a "FULL 10000" synch/connection. Cool.

  Then I configured the iSCSI initiators in each VM esxi to connect to the 200 GB iSCSI LUN. The update occurs and the two machines virtual esxi see the LUN and it goes up.

  At this point, all connections are there and the iSCSI is connected to 10 Gbps.

  So I import the virtual machine residing in the iSCSI LUN, one in each VM esxi. They import very well.

  So I turn on one of the Windows 2008 R2 VM that is hosted on the first esxi host and... GROUP!

  I have attached the screenshot.

  

  Can we do anything out it?... lol

  I can repeat it each time.

  I'm laughing because I'm probably using WS incorrectly or something.

  However, I have flash the 10GBE optical is QLogic/HP lates BIOS.

  Thank you

  Do not use the for the VM ESXi vmxnet3 adapter.  The pilot of ESXi 5.1 for vmxnet3 as a 'physical' NETWORK card has some problems.  Use rather e1000.

  Note that you can always use vmxnet3 for any nested VMs, with no problems.

• Attempt vSwitch configuration change and now the ESXi host and virtual machines offline

  So I have no doubt, I have myself to blame for this one. I was trying to change my vSwitch from 100 Mbps to 1000 Mbps when an 'operation timed' error out jumps-to the top and my vCenter Server lost connection with my ESXi host. I tried to restart the host manually, but that did not help. The host is not the ping requests and all the virtual machines on that host are offline; None of them vMotion off to my other ESX Server.

  I tried to reconnect the host computer in vCenter, but it is obviously does not connect because it can't ping it. I logged the ESXi console and all the network settings appear to be correct. I'm used to connect to the ESX console where you can execute commands, but it's my first ESXi host, so I don't know what I can do.

  Any help is greatly appreciated!

  -D.

  If you had your management port and VMs on different vSwitches / NIC leave on framework would eliminate a false positive. As in your case the management port reportedly follows the cable / about speed, but the virtual machine network would be intact (and I'm assuming that your storage space as well).  In this case the VMs system would have worked very well even if the management port did not work.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

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• ESXI does not on DRS 301 Server SCSI controller

  When I try to load ESXi Server 301 DRS rather than display a virtual drive, it shows 2 discs and I have to choose one to install on. Sometimes it works and sometimes I have to choose Drive 1 instead of drive 0 and then it works. I was wondering is there a way ESXi can load the drivers for the RAID SCSI, so he sees a Virtual Drive

  Hello

  It is not possible to have a software RAID solution in ESXi. The only way is to have a hardware RAID disk controller.

  Concerning

  Franck

• VMWare ESXi 4 on Dell R710 shows no other Intel Nic

  Hello

  I installed VMWare ESXi 4 on a new Dell R710 server with integrated Broadcom 4 Port NETWORK interface and a network card additional Intel 4 Port. In the Vsphere Client now I only see the NIC. Broadcom onboard

  

  The additional INTEL Nic does not appear upward.  But I can see VMWare ESXi 4 acknowledged the Intel NIC in Advanced Settings Configuration VMDirectPath.

  Any help with this would be great.

  Thank you

  Marcus

  Welcome to the Forums - if it's the Quad Intel NIC check that the http://virtublog.com/2010/01/24/esx-4-0u1-intel-quad-nic-issue/ - the drivers are located here - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_esxi40_intel_82575_82576_dt/ZHcqYmR0QGpidGR3

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• ESXi test with disconnected network run?

  I practice the migration of my current server VMware ESXi 5 2 environment.  Everything seems smooth with the conversion to the test area that will hold everything until the new server is in place.  I wish I could on ESXi machines just to make sure I can document the traps and understand the fixes before doing it for real in fact.

  I use the 5 ESXi as a virtual machine on my 8 processor AMD FX-8350 4.0 Workstation (4 allocated) GHz with 16 GB of RAM (8 GB allocated) and a TB of space assigned to the datastore1 of the VM.  I installed a second NETWORK card and configured the virtual computer to use it. I installed the client vSphere on the workstation itself.  I also created a virtual machine inside the VM ESXi running server 2008 std, vsphere client and veeam tools.

  Hello

  Here are two options.

  First option

  Right click on virtual machine---> edit configuration---> network adapter---> uncheck the box to connect to the power on option.

  Second Option:

  Create virtua vswitch on ESXi host without adding any nic vSwitch. Create machine virtual portgroup in this vswtich. Add this port group to this machine of virtua.

  Both this option will be the machine of course that is not network.

  Concerning

  Mohammed

• Two networks, ESXi Server?

  We have two server VLAN in our environment (99 and 30). The 99 (10.99.x.x) is old and slowly be phased out and machines are moved to the 30 most recent (10.10.30.x). I also work on an upgrade to VMware infrastructure. We have a mixture of former host ESX 3.x and 4.x and ESXi 4.1 will visit. (I'm also relatively new to VMware so forgive my ignorance). My question concerns the following scenario.

  Host 1 is on the LAN 10.10.30.x and a few machines running. I need to do an upgrade on this host, but first migrate the machines off.

  Host 2 is on the LAN 10.99.x.x but we want the version of ESXi. I'll use this as a waiting area for machines while their hosts are upgraded. There are 2 NETWORK interface on this host card, NIC0 is configured on the VLAN 99 with management related to her network. I created a second virtual switch and he attributed to NIC1. This NIC is connected to a switch that has the switchport configured on the VLAN 30.

  I'm lost what to set up then. (Maybe nothing) Perhaps I am confused because I had to put an IP address on NIC0 (network management). I have to NIC1 IP with another network management? I would stay on the 99 VLAN NIC0 and NIC1 to be on VLAN 30 so when I transfer machines to the host, I can configure just the appropriate VSwitch so I don't have to re - IP them.

  Welcome to the community,

  virtual networks are not very different physical networks. The IP address you assign, is assigned to the management of ESXi host, not to the NIC itself, it is not necessary to attribute the anthers IP address to the other network adapter.

  What I recommend is that you plan to configure the network using the VST host, i.e. configure physical ports as junction (for Cisco) ports or ports (for other providers) tag and assigning the VLAN ID on the groups of individual ports. In this way, you can use a unique vSwitch with two uplinks connected for a better distribution of redundancy and load.

  See for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004074

  André

• On ethernet ESXi iface will not get the IP address of the cable modem

  I installed the Vyatta Core 6.3 virtual appliance in VMWare ESXi 4.1 U1 on a Dell Precision 490. I want Vyatta to serve as a single window for my home network together with a red interface with a public IP address, other VMS behind the DMZ and my private machines (laptops, TiVo, etc.) behind the Green interface.

  Here is my VMWare network topology:
  vSwitch0 ("green vSwitch"): NIC 0, connected to the hub of switching/wireless connection with connection cable
  vSwitch1 ("demilitarized vSwitch"): no physical NETWORK adapter
  vSwitch2 ("red vSwitch"): NIC 1, connected to the modem cable Comcast with connecting cable
  Here is my config of Vyatta VM network:
  eth0: connected to vSwitch2 ('Switch red')
  eth1: connected to vSwitch0 ("Green Switch")
  eth2: connected to vSwitch1 ("Switch demilitarized")
  Here is my config Vyatta:
  Ethernet eth0 {}
  dhcp address
  Description "red Interface.
  automatic duplex
  HW - id 00:50:56:3F:FF:01
  smp_affinity auto
  automatic speed
  }
  Ethernet eth1 {}
  address 172.16.122.1/24
  Description 'green Interface.
  automatic duplex
  HW - id 00:50:56:3F:FF:02
  smp_affinity auto
  automatic speed
  }
  Ethernet eth2 {}
  address 192.168.122.254/24
  Description "DMZ Interface.
  automatic duplex
  HW - id 00:50:56:3F:FF:03
  smp_affinity auto
  automatic speed
  }
  My Green interface is very well. All computers connected to NIC of the model Dell Precision 0 get the IP addresses assigned to them via DHCP, which I put in place for this subnet/interface.
  My DMZ interface is very well. I can assign static IP addresses to the other virtual machines, assign their interfaces to vSwitch1 ("demilitarized vSwitch"), and they can communicate with each other.
  By my firewall or zone rules, the machines on the Green interface can communicate with machines on the DMZ, very well, and DMZ machines can establish connections to the machines of the green zone, which is correct.
  Here's MY PROBLEM: eth0 can't get an IP of Comcast address. I tried to change all sorts of locations on the ethernet card virtual vSwitch, etc., nothing helped. I rolled the cable modem power, nothing helps. When I connect my modem cable back to my old wireless router, the router receives an IP address immediately. When I connect the cable modem to 1 NETWORK card on the Dell printer, Vyatta gets no IP address.
  I'm sure I'm just something wrong, but I don't know what. I have a different configuration of Vyatta identical-except-physics somewhere else, but it doesn't seem to work practically
  . I think that it has to work, otherwise why Vyatta would provide an easy to use ESXi device that's read-to-go?
  I thought that maybe the vSwitch in ESXi were getting in the way and I need to connect the virtual machine directly to the physical NETWORK card, but you can do that in ESXi, so it's obviously not.
  No idea what is the problem?

  Answer is here: http://www.vyatta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=133590

• Newbe question about the network configuration of ESXi 3.5

  I have ESXi 3.5 works well on a Dell Poweredge T300 server.  I want to connect a Netgear ReadyNas Pro Business Edition for this Dell and connect by iscsi.

  I want to connect 1 network card of the ReadyNas for 1 network card on the Dell printer.

  My question is on the Dell when I go to the ESXi server and customize by pressing F2 and goto network settings I see the following:

  X vmnic0 embeeded nic1

  NIC2 integrated vmnic1 used by vswitch1

  I'm may be thick but can you explain what NIC on the ESXi server is used for access interenet and I need to configure for iscsi?  I thought that it should be obvious, but it is vmnic0 or vmnic1?

  Your ESXi host has two vswitchs configured what uplinks to physical NIC in the system.

  vSwitch0 what uplinks to vmnic0 (who, although a red x, indicating a problem seems to be very well) this vswitch holds you management interface (IP 192.168.2.107) and a portgroup of VM for your virtual machines. You also have an another vswitch vswitch1 what uplinks to GB NIC vmnic1. This vswitch has unused virtual machine port group. Also a VLAN ID has been set for this vswitch which would lead me to believe that VST is / was operating on that host in the past.

  Haven't you set up this? If this isn't the case, I would get with one who did.

  Order "the great vSwitch debate" parts 1 and 2 to start.

  http://kensvirtualreality.WordPress.com/2009/03/29/the-great-vswitch-debate-part-1/