ESXi 4 - nic network configuration

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• Advice on appropriate hosts of ESXi and NAS network configuration

  I am looking for tips or best practices on the implementation of my ESXi 4.0 hosts with my NAS... Here is some basic information:

  -Certified VMware AberNAS with matrix RAID 5 SAS (2 x Gig NIC) drives

  -2 x HP Proliant welcomes each with 6-8 Gig NIC

  Currently, NAS NIC are associated to balance the load connected to two different switches.  HP hosts are also associated to balance the load connected to 2 different switches.

  Here is a glance at the basic configuration in vcenter:

  

  Because I have a lot of NETWORK interface card on the server (4 used... but 8 in total), I would like to configure this to improve performance.  So my questions:

  1 can I create a new vswitch sin and dedicate the traffic between the hosts and NAS?  How?  Place them on a physical switch dedicated between the hosts, NAS and LAN?

  2. create a dedicated NIC for VM vmotion of hosts?

  3. any other configuration benefiting NFS and VMware?

  Am open to any idea. Thank you

  -There are currently of 2 guests (am licensed for 3 and can install later). In addition, I have 2 physical switches gigabit dedicated to SAR/VM host nic and are resources shared LAN... so when the facility management/vmotion Teddy bear design, do I imitate the same configuration on the two hosts?  Do stay even these teddy bears, connected to one of the switches of concert?

  Yes you would duplicate the installation on both hosts-

  -With a device SIN the NIC on the NAS is associated with unique IP address and is dedicated to the virtual machine infrastructure.  Then I'd have 2 bears from each host AND the 2 bears from the NAS connected to the dedicated physical switch isoltaed and ip static'd just like different subnet?

  Yes - as I said with a single IP address on a NAS for the natachasery on the hosts would be in a configuration of active / standby - it is more about the fact that ESXi does not really load balancing between the two network cards but selects a teddy bear based on the source and destination IP addresses - so if any of these changes the traffic's not on a unique Teddy

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• ESXi 4.1 network configuration

  Hello

  I just connected on a cluster of ESXi 4.1, I am now and noticed that networking is configured as a Virtual Machine port group.

  Shouldn't be like a VMkernel Port as the console Vmotion or management?

  What may be the consequence?

  Thank you.

  Eric

  Could not be address is displayed when your Mgmt. IP host is not able to ping the default gateway... Please mark my answer as correct or useful if there was some advice

• VCS Starter Pack Express 7.0.1 without DOUBLE NIC / Network configuration

  Hello community,

  can you please explain to me how to put a VCSESTRTPACK to the Internet? Just put the public IP address to the configuration of the Interface? I have just one public IP address, so I NAT? Or is it possible to make it work. I want to register outside, devices on Internet. Some evaluation criteria are behind NAT.

  What the routing configuration and deployment of the network?

  I'll put the VCSESTARTPACK for the server to register of external endpoints on the internet.

  And for internal services use an MCU and the TMS. So I nedd to internal and external communication to my VCSESTARTPACK. Is it possible to connect a VCSC internal in order to increase enrollment?

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• Network configuration / routing / two network interface cards / NAT - leased / dedicated Dell R210 running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-799733

  Network configuration / routing / two network interface cards / NAT - leased / dedicated Dell R210 running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-799733

  Hello

  I'm trying to understand how to configure a dedicated server of Dell R210 rented running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-799733

  This dedicated server is rented www.online.net and sits somewhere in France. One of its network adapters have an IP public 62.210.177.20x. The other NIC is here, but I do not understand how it is configured. According to the www.online.net portal, the other NETWORK card has or should have an IP 10.90.116.20x. And I am obviously set up is to have some virtual machines running and be able to access the Internet. I have access to the console of the server Dell through iDRAC and since I could see, one of the network adapters in the IP is 62.210.177.20x defined, and the other has been shown out of service. I managed to make it appear the other interface but I cannot find anywhere how to assign the IP address 10.90.116.20x to this 2^nd network adapter. But then again I don't even know if I should or if I need to assing a IP address to this 2^nd network adapter. What is the cable connected even for this 2^nd NIC? I do not know. Should it be - I'm not either. I don't know French and manuals/instructions on www.online.net are in French. I can try an online translator, but I don't think that what I'm looking for is explained. How do I get this set up? I have to do something about the ESXi on the server console? This interface 2^nd should be in place, or it must be down as if it was originally? Yesterday after watching someone videos on YouTube, I added the second virtual switch and moved the virtual hosts of this switch 2 and he entrusted the 2^nd NIC. But that 2^nd NIC had a red X next to it probably indicating that it was disconnected the 2^nd form virtual switch. Today and now I have managed to access the ESXi console server through iDRAC, I bring the 2^nd NIC, and now both network adapters are assigned to the virtual switch 1^st . But I think that a NIC should be attributed to a single switch and the other card NETWORK on the 2^nd switch. I'm just a desktop guy with enough knowledge to be dangerous J if you / someone put in steps how and where to set them up it... PLEASE

  Thanks in advance

  cweks

  ~ # vmware - v

  VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-799733

  ~ # esxcfg - road

  VMkernel default gateway is 62.210.177.1

  ~ # esxcfg-vmknic-list

  Interface Port Group/DVPort IP IP family address Netmask Broadcast MAC address MTU TSO MSS active Type

  vmk0 management network IPv4 62.210.177.20x 255.255.255.0 62.210.177.255 d4:ae:52:cb:bb:84 1500 65535 true STATIC

  vmk0 networking fe80::d6ae:52ff:xxxx:bb84 64 d4:ae:52:cb:bb:84 1500 65535 true IPv6 STATIC, PREFERRED

  Portal www.online.NET--information

  NORMAL 1 ready 62.210.177.20x xxx.domain.eu.       D4:AE:52:AB:BB:84

  2 PRIVATE loan 10.90.116.20x d4:ae:52:ab:bb:85

  http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/VMware_ESXi/en#Network_configuration

  Network configuration

  • VMware vSphere Hypervisor is an "operating system" for pure virtualization and support NAT or routing. Therefore, only a real bridge configuration can be used.
  • To use a subnet additional IP must be configured as a router VM.

  If I understand the above, I need to show some VM and set up as a router? If the virtual machine that will act as a router must have two network interfaces, where it is connected to a switch and the other to the other switch network card. Am I do? The YouTube video that suggested, but I thought that maybe / somehow ESXi can route packets between the two network cards, but from what I read, ESXi can route packets. Do I need to order an additional / extra / 2nd IPv4 address so that it can be assigned to the interface of the router?

• Networking question in VMware Workstation / nested ESXi network configuration problem

  Hi guys,.

  I am trying to set up a virtual lab, I setup a domain, a vcenter server and up to 1 ESXi host controller.

  I am really struggling with the network aspect in establishing a vmnic for storing shared, please see the attached screenshots and a few questions:

  1. Is a vmnic a real network map? or vmnic correspond to "network adapters" that you put in place since the setting of your virtual machine?

  I followed a tutorial and implement 3 NICs on the ESXi host, in Bridge mode, I tried this in my configuration of vmworkstation and I lose the connection to my server vcenter to the ESXi host.

  See screenshot attached to how I configured my ESXi host, screenshot is called 'screenshot2esxihost network', I run got each of the maps defined on NAT network.

  

  See also the screenshot of how I have my configuration of network settings in my VMWare Workstation, screenshot is called "screenshot1. the tutorial does not show how it has its editor of the virtual network configuration, but it puts its ESXi host NICs in BRIDGED mode, and I'm guessing that you can set this time within the virtual network adapter. If someone could tell me what changes should I make in there and on the network cards in my ESXi host, which would be really useful.

  

  My domain controller, server ESXi hosts and vcenter are currently on the 192.168.86 range, which currently stood at NAT

  See also a screenshot from the vsphere client - I don't see a vmnic "vmnic0", my goal is to be able to add a "vmnic2" for a separate storage network.

  

  any help would be received with gratitude, I VCP510 review at the end of the month and really hope to be able to get my lab setup as soon as possible.

  The vmnic is the rising 'physical' of an ESXi host. So with the 3 network cards that you configured for the host in VMware Workstation you will see under "Network adapters" and you can use them to vSwitches in the section "network".

  André

• VLAN again added, problems detected on guests during the detection of new network configuration

  Hi all

  I started facing a strange problem trying to use a new VLAN configured in my vCenter environment...

  Basically, my system 'fight' to identify the new network label (VLAN) configured, leaving systems disconnected from the local network.

  This condition disappears only when I change the VM touched, assign a label of different network (VLAN), apply the changes and restart the process by configuring the new VLAN return.

  We will use an example to explain better:

  • I have a named Windows Server/Workstation VM: VM1
  • I have 2 VLANS configured in vCenter: VLAN50 and VLAN70

  VM1 is sitting on the VLAN50 and has the static IP address configured.

  I start the migration of the machine to a VLAN different, by editing the network settings of the operating system (IP, MASK, GW, DNS entries...) and replace the label of VM1 VLAN70 network.

  At this point, the machine NIC shows as if it could not connect to what in the network, although it is configured accordingly in order to communicate in the new subnet.

  I have change the VM again and change the label of a network VLAN different from VLAN70, click OK. Immediately, I change VM settings to assign in return the VLAN70.

  After that, the operating system recognizes the network successfully and starts working as expected...

  All of my virtual machines use VMXNET3 adapter and my version of vCenter is v5.5 build #2646482

  No idea what might happen?

  Concerning

  We found the problem...

  It was not associated with VMware, but a network configuration problem: (ESXi connected to two switches, one of them with the VLAN configured correctly and the other does not...).

  Thanks for the help

• Confusion of Network Configuration.

  OK, here's the deal. I have an ESXi host in a data center away from me. He is sitting behind a couple of pretty good/great firewall with a number of IP addresses external, are attributed to him. There are already a few virtual machines on the ESXi host with their own connections to the internet. They are a production environment and cannot be brought if ever that. Which asked me to do, is to emulate and then to transfer our existing to the ESXi host physical network. Our network consists of a server, ISA Server 2006, a couple of DCs, a pair of Exchange servers in a FE / BE deployment and a few Certification authorities. What I would like to know, is how I configure VMs for these machines so that they would work just like their own little network, not interfere with production machines and have all their traffic through the VM ISA of the funnel. Access to the outside world would be implemented virtual machines with their own addressing scheme of dedicated and then subnet/ip to have the external IP address of the VM ISA pointing at them to use the VM ISA as a gateway on the subnet ESXi allowing enough? Horsepower and bandwidth are NOT a problem what so ever with the data center or ESXi host. I was given pretty much free rein during the purchase of the ESXi host and the security of the data center.

  Will be my virtual machines on their own subnet, and using gateways configuration plan be enough?

  Thanks in advance.

  Looks like you want to use VLAN vSwitches or extra.  Either way should work perfectly.  Additional VSwitches require additional physical NIC, which not to be an option.

  Road of VLAN:

  Configuration-> network

  Select the Virtual Machine port group that contains the virtual machine

  Assign a VLAN ID

  Create another Virtual Machine port group and assign a different VLAN ID.

  Add an additional NETWORK card to the ISA server computer and place it in the new Port Group.

  Now the ISA server computer has a NETWORK adapter in each network.

  Use differnet subnets for each VLAN.

  This way both groups of computers can use the same ISA Server and do not interfere with each other.

  Add the VLAN ID to the vSwitch shouldn't affect the virtual machine in the Port Group. But if these VM communicate with anything outside the host without going through ISA, they must be added to this new VLAN one way or another.

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• Network configuration question

  I'm one of our 5.5 hosts replace with new material and want to make sure that I get the right networking. We have unit vcenter and a HA cluster with shared on an EQ San storage and complete double switches for redundancy. My old hosts have 2 quad port NIC, so configure each vswitch with double vmnic for a total redundancy was easy - I split each pair on the physical network interface cards. If one of the physical network cards is dead, I was still all my connections.

  The new host has 1 quad port nic and dual 2 network cards to port. Network interface cards double port match and have tcp offload capabilities, but the quad port does not. I want to use the dual port 2 for my iscsi and vmotion, so that leaves the quad port for my public connections. What happens if the public NIC dies, especially if they vcenter on this host? I know that all the virtual machines will still work, but will they automatically vmotion to other hosts if only the public network fails?

  Thank you.

  NIC failures are very rare. So, I would place too much emphasis on this scenario.

  Is the answer to your question, it depends. HA has a configuration option called isolation response of the host, who controls what happens when the host loses connectivity management. By default, it is configured to leave it powered on. You can change it to Shut Down, which makes sense in your scenario, as the loss of connectivity management means the loss of connectivity to the virtual machine as well. And in this way when management network goes down all your virtual machines is gracefully closed and restarted on another host.

• VMware HA network configuration?

  Hello

  It is on the issue of network configuration in a cluster VMware and have less experience VMware.

  We create VMware HA cluster between two nodes.

  each host has 4 1 GB network cards each. In the future, we will add more.

  What is the best configuration for these cards.

  Virtual machines will be in multiple VLANs.  Some will also be in the DMZ. How to set up these 4 network cards?

  Thank you in advance.

  Yannick Noor

  UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

  Hi parkarnoor,

  See the attachment of the section network example of my post here.  It's an old design copper I did some time, but is still topical.  Personally, I mix ports through the NIC cards to create links and use multi-nic vMotion.  As you do use network storage, you can use multiple NICs for your comments link.

• What ESXI host NIC will use when the membership of the AD?

  What ESXI host NIC will use when the membership of the AD?

  I have a domain on ESXI host controller and I want ESXI to join the AD? I need to create a vmkernel for the goal?

  Hi Welcome to the communities,

  It will use the management network, which uses vmk0 as a default, no need to create a new vmkernel.

  Then look up what vmnic is connected to vmk0 in your installation.

  Concerning

  Tim

• HA installation failure due to a misconfiguration in the host network configuration?

  We have no setup problem on a cluster HA containing 2 ESX 4.0 host. However, after adding a host ESXi 4.1 and configuration HA to contain all 3 hosts, HA shows failure due to a misconfiguration in the network configuration for the ESXi 4.1 host host.
  
  Remembering this bad spell names network could cause a failure of HA configuration, we proceed to rename network management Service Console host ESXi 4.1 in order to match the network management of the ESX 4.0. However, this does not.
  
  ESX and ESXi are able to mix in a HA cluster in the first place? Any advise?

  crescendas wrote:

  ESX and ESXi are able to mix in a HA cluster in the first place? Any advise?

  Hello

  Yes, you can mix ESXi and ESX on this same cluster

  1. Check your DNS - should resolve to long and short names of all nodes in a cluster that you
  2. are the new ESXi in the same IP subnet as the older ESX servers?
  3. try to disable and enable HA
  4. Check below link
     http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1001596&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=213574287&StateID=0%200%20213576136

  Good luck

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• HA Network Configuration

  Hello

  I am currently creating a HA cluser and I was wondering what the network configuration must be for HA to work.

  What network HA uses to monitor hosts and migrate virtual machines, it is the management of the port network, where redundancy or it will use a dedicated port vmkernal configured for vMotion?

  And if I need redundant Vmkernel ports for management traffic, I can make several local networks (Layer 2) VIRTUAL, no IP address or Layer 3 configuration? I think I know the answer to that, but thought I should ask.

  ESX uses service console connection - ESXi uses the vmkernels with a check mark in "network management".

  I'm not sure that understand your second question.

  Best regards

  Frank Brix Pedersen

  blog: http://www.vfrank.org

• ESXi 4.0 networking

  I worked on Vmware Server 2.0 and understand bridge, NAT and host networks only.

  What are the standards/network configuration for ESXi 4.0? Is there a documentation which can give an overview on the implementation of the netwroking for comments / Host on ESXi 4.0?

  Hello

  I would check the first four links in the ESX/ESXi of this site section. As well as the 3 blogs referenced by section of the specific items of this other site for detailed information about ESX Networking.

  Best regards

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• Every few minutes, the message "the network seems to be down. Is the network configured correctly? »

  When you play Pandora, every few minutes, the message "the network seems to be down. Is the network configured correctly? "is displayed. I click OK and Pandora continues. Network connection diagnostic report no problem. I have the BDP-S390 and a cable network.

  Hello Thomas,.

  Also, try using a different Ethernet cable or try to connect the player to another router's Ethernet port. He may be a problem with the Ethernet cable taking Ethernet to the router/player.

  Make sure that the Internet speed is 2.5 Mbps for SD videos streaming and 10 Mbps for streaming HD videos.

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