ESXi 5.0.0 623860 and HP Procurve 2810 - 48G grouping/Trunk

Hello

I have a VMware ESXi 5.0.0 623860 host running two Windows VM well enough. The host material is an HP Proliant DL 380 G5 server.

This host is Gbit Ethernet connected to a HP Procurve 2810 - 48G (J9022A) switch via two cables UTP Cat 5e.

I want to configure an ethernet trunk using the two ports of the switch for fault tolerance and failover disaster link.

I have telnet switch and configure ports like Trunk3 with TRUNK (not LACP) option as shown in this picture:

Procurve_Trunks_config.JPG

To the ESXi side I'll to the vSphere Clent to Configuration-> networking-> vSwitch0-> properties-> Edit-> grouping of NETWORK cards, then set the option Load Balancing on "Route based on the IP hash" as shown in the following image:

vSphere_ip_hash_config.JPG

At that time, with or without restarting the software Procurve or ESXi host I ping the host and two virtual machines in it, but after about 10-15 minutes, I lose connectivity to the host (ping stops). So if I disconnect one of the UTP cables connect it again.

I don't know if these are the good configurations for my goal, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thaks a lot.

OLIVEIRAS

Hi Kamen (and oliveiras - in case you have not found a solution for this yet).

I had the same problem recently with ESXi 5.1 and a HP switch and I fixed it by following this link:

http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/documentLinkInt.do?micrositeID=&popup=true&LanguageID=&externalID=1022751

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