Isolate the port on a vSphere standard switch traffic

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• Present the VLAN extra - vSphere Standard switch

  Hello everyone.

  I currently have two Exchange servers, both with NIC that sit on the same IP range. ('abc')

  I need to add the secondary NETWORK card to each server, but the need of the intellectual property of sit on one VLAN different than the existing boxes. ("xyz") (Redundancy is the goal here).

  How can I present the 'new' VLAN ("xyz") to our environment vSphere ESXi 5.0 so that it is an option when you add a standard switch, instead of only 'None (0)' or ' all (4095)?

  Thanks for the time.

  -Brandon

  First, network cards connected to your ESXi host, are in one vLAN specific or are they shared resources to allow several VLANS?

  If they are defined to a vLAN, they you have 2 choices.

  (1) add another 1-2 by ESXi host network cards and link them to the new vLAN.  Create a new portgroup to the new VLAN and add network cards to your VM (s) for this portgroup.

  (2) move your network team the TRUNK port settings and allow the two VLANS.  You then need to change your existing exchanges with the ID vLAN appropriate, including your management & storage trade.

  * These two options will probably require downtime, or migrate all virtual machines off the coast of the host to make the changes. **

  If your ports are currently configured TRUNK, then the network team comes to allow access to the new vlan and you must create a new portgroup for this new vlan.

  I hope this helps!

• vSphere Standard switch - how does the failover

  Hello

  I have a theory for you question VMware guru.  I have four ports on my ESXi host and I want to assure you that in the case of a link failure, network traffic gets moved to another link.  Currently, I have all four adapters marked as Active to balance traffic between the four ports to load.  My question is, what is the point of having an auxiliary card?  In the case of a failure of the link, is it a switchport not active failover to another active port?  If an active port can switch to another active port, why would you want never to define an interface in sleep mode, rather than use it for balancing traffic?

  Thanks for any idea in advance!

  -ToTheCloud

  OK, so the auxiliary card would be useful if I only had 3 ports and two switches vSphere Standard.  At this time, when a port to one of these switches would fail, I'll be able to have the one of these switches switch to auxiliary card (since you cannot have an active adapter on both switches at the same time)?

  Correct - if you had two vSwitches, each with a NIC card Assistant could only be assigned to a vSwitch both.

  Also, just to clarify, if I do not have all four active cards on the same vSwitch, if a link goes down, traffic would failover to another active adapter if I didn't have a correct map specified, auxiliary?

  Yes.

  Post edited by: vmroyale update based on a mistake (which is now bar-through)

• Cannot migrate Vsphere Standard Switch switch broadcast.

  Hi all

  We have HP blades and we try to add two new Cisco UCS servers in the same cluster where we have HP BL460 blades. VCenter is 5.5 U1 and U2 5.0 ESXi. We add ESXi in Maintenance mode to the Cluster and then tried to migrate the Group mgmt distributed port Standard move to remove a network card standard switch to the distributed switch. But it fails with the error ".

  Call 'HostNetworkSystem.UpdateNetworkConfig' of object "networkSystem-60985 'on vCenter Server 'Vcenter' has failed." Changing the network disconnected "10.1.x.x" vCenter server host configuration and has been restored.

  Team setting to ports of mgmt group is «route based on hashing IP...»

  You must select a different load balancing policy. It is not possible to create a port-channel in the two Modules of IO Cisco UCS.

• Increase the number of ports on the port vDS group

  Hi all

  I know that I can increase or decrease the number of ports in a port group easily using the vSphere Standard switch. I can't find how to do this on my Nexus 1000v vDS however. Each group of port that I configured on the vDS has only 32 ports available and it becomes a problem.

  If anyone knows how to increase ports and/or where the documentation is for this, let me know. Thank you!!

  mast

  Matt,

  On the VSM in the port-profile game 'max-ports' to the number you want.

  Louis

• Essentials for vSphere Standard - correct license?

  We are running 3 x machines hosts vsphere 4.1 essentials connected to a server vCenter (not the essentials vcenter server) running standard. We know that if we improve these host machines we cannot be handled by our server vCenter (v5.5) due to a change of license and it is like not possible.

  
  After the execution of these 3 guests with Essentials, we now seek to introduce environmental vmotion and storage vmotion. Can you confirm for me that we just need to buy the right amount of vSphere Standard licenses?

  It doesn't seem to be an upgrade from Essentials to vSphere standard. Team VMware licenses have already recommended to talk to our partners and after that they recommend to purchase:

  VMware vSphere with operations management [Corporate - upgrading: VMware vSphere 5 Essentials to vSphere Operations Manag Std Acceleration Kit of 6 processors]

  It is also much more expensive and much more than necessary.  I believe that it is unnecessary to go this route because it is much more expensive than buying the vSphere licensing standards.

  Can anyone confirm that we just need to buy the right amount of vSphere Standard licenses in order to manage them with vCenter Server Standard to enable vmotion between these hosts?

  I understand that acceleration kits are grouped to be more profitable, but because you already have a license of vcenter standard you are right, you will need the correct number of vSphere ESXi licenses which is sold per CPU - so if your three hosts are dual cpu you will need 6 licenses

• Basic questions about the port of Vsphere mirror

  I set up a lightweight VM that would deal with inter-VM traffic. To do this, I want to activate the duplication of port between virtual machines.

  
  

  I have ESXi 5.5 Update 1 installed, use the Vsphere (no webclient) client. I see no duplication of port capacity on my Vsphere Client

  

  I have some very basic questions:

  (1) all documentation I've read involving 'Port mirror' is done via web Vsphere client. Vsphere is provided with Vcenter (please, correct me if I'm wrong)

  (2) only functions with "Distributed Virtual Switch", not "switch vSphere Standard" port mirroring. How can I activate "Distributed Virtual Switch"? What products can I download/install and try (suppose I go to the user a license for 60 days)

  (3) exist what API to enable/disable/setup Port mirroring?

  (1) all documentation I've read involving 'Port mirror' is done via web Vsphere client. Vsphere is provided with Vcenter (please, correct me if I'm wrong)

  Because the mirror of port requires a distributed switch, you will need to vCenter Server and once in vCenter Server, you can the vSphere Web Client of the user or the vSphere Client (c# version).

  (2) only functions with "Distributed Virtual Switch", not "switch vSphere Standard" port mirroring. How can I activate "Distributed Virtual Switch"? What products can I download/install and try (suppose I go to the user a license for 60 days)

  You can download the server vCenter Server (60 day trial) and you'll have an Enterprise Plus version for your ESXi host vSphere.

  (3) exist what API to enable/disable/setup Port mirroring?

  Check the comments of this blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/01/vsphere-5-1-vds-feature-enhancements-port-mirroring-part-1.html

• Order of port re-auth authentication and switch / stop of the session

  Hi all

  We are implementing an ISE (1,4) and met regarded questions on the agenda of the authentication and a stop of the session after posture in line. We got mab, dot1x as authentication order (priority of authentication is set to dot1x, mab). We have configured a reauthentication in the ports of the switch. Windows uses begging all-connect NAM (see 4.2) to dot1x and posture. During the re-authentication, either all-connecting NAM or switch does not start an eapol start and switch allows the session to the MAB, where - as when seen dot1x and mab authentication switch order generates eapol start. The switches are 3750 (15.0 (2) SE8).

  Any possibility we could force the switch/NAM agent sent an eapol start during re-auth?

  Regarding the posture, posture once conform for an endpoint (after dot1x authentication passes) following a judgment of the ISE manual session for an endpoint, switch creates a new session in ISE changes and switch the State of the unknown port to posture. Posture ise AC client still shows status of complaint of posture in the endpoint. It seems do not know about the stop of the session. During NAM endpoint agent session performs a re-auth component however posture remains unchanged "in line".

  Does anyone have experience this problem?.

  Thanks in advance.

  Concerning

  GA

  Hi Gaj-

  I had the similar problem in the past and for setting the following attribute:

  Termination-action-AVPair attribute modifier = 1

  Give that a go and let us know if you still have any questions.

  Thank you for evaluating useful messages!

• VMotion of standard switch internal

  I use a vsphere 6.0 and I noticed that can vmotion VM has connected to a switch internal standard (vswitch without connected physical network card) without warning or error.

  It is really strange, in the I read Manual:

  By default, you cannot use vMotion to migrate a virtual machine that is attached to a standard switch with no rising physical configured, even if the destination host also has a standard switch non-uplink with the same label.

  OK, so it looks like its def a problem with the documentation then.

  I guess its either very old information are ensured through, or a very old mistake that should say some as "unless the destination host also has a standard switch non-uplink with the same label."

  Rich

• replication ports 6 VMkernel vSphere

  Thanks to Jeff Hunter for his recent updates and documentation on vSphere for replication 6.0.  Read the docs online, I have a few questions on the vSphere newly supported, dedicated replication VMkernel profits.

  Here (vSphere replication 6.0 Documentation Center) and here (vSphere replication 6.0 Documentation Center) are notes on configuring the VMkernel ports dedicated to the RV on a source host and RV traffic on a target host (one for the VR traffic and another for VR NFC traffic, respectively).

  Considering that it is probably a common practice to use VR as the replication engine with SRM with the intention to fail on the original production site, what is the value in the configuration of two ports VMkernel for VR?

  On the protected Site, you configure a VR VMkernel port to send traffic.  He sends the replicated data from VM for device of recovery of the RV Site, who turns and sends that data replicated for recovery Site ESXi hosts VR NFC VMkernel ports.

  To not return, then the recovery Site can (should?) have an additional port of VR VMkernel, which sends the data replicated VM for device of original VR protected site, which in turn sends the data replicated to the ports of VR NFS VMkernel from the original host protected Site ESXi.

  This looks like it may or must be a distinction between the traffic between the sites and traffic of VR NFC within a site since there are two types of traffic for VMkernel (VR and VR NFC) VR.

  What is this distinction that guarantees a dedicated RV NFC VMkernel port? Why not just use VR VMkernel port? Thank you!

  Edit: I consider these types of traffic to be at the same level of importance and safety.  I have no problem to put two VMkernel ports in the same VLAN.  If I did this, it would put two VMkernel ports per host, in the same network segment.  I wonder why I don't want to do that rather than just use a single VMkernel port or multiple VLANs.

  Post edited by: Mike Brown

  I think it boils down essentially to the options. you don't have to do that, but based on the reviews, it has been estimated that US aircraft enough requests from customers to provide a mechanism which not only allows you to control the path allows the replication traffic (incoming and outgoing) (the source host and VR target devices), and routes it takes on the network but also control the card used for the VR NFC traffic on the target sites. As you RV relies on the NFC to push the data down to the storage of data target on the target sites and some desired customers be able to separate this circulation as well.

  So in the case of the NFC, you can if you want things together (optional) upwards so that the traffic is storage hosts (and I mean here the hosts VR has determined have access to data target stores) can be sent on a physical LAN separated if you wanted that... and a lot of people have asked that flexibility. Allows customers to isolate the common VR NFC (and traffic pass VR) of management traffic not VR "regular".

  Once VRM note that a host has a vmknic marked as RV NFC, only this address is reported on the VR server, which means when it comes to this host in the future that we will only use this address for traffic from VR NFC.

  just my 2cents on why we did it.

• List of Standard switch ESXi (or) VC trades

  Hello

  Is there a way to get the list of the standard switch all the port groups that are created in an ESXi Server / VC... ? I could get the list of the DVS, but for a switch standard I couldn't find the API or accurately... ? Can anyone help... ?

  Its resolved. I used PropertyCollector.

• Standard switch DV Switch migration

  Hello the heroes of VMware.

  I intend to convert networking virtual switch to standard dv switch in my company in the context of ESX 4.1 to 5.5 upgrade infrastructure. We have about 160 guests and virtual 2000 computers in this project. From now on, we have rebuilt most of the hosts to 5.5 (dint want to upgrade, coz of the limitations of space on the startup of the Bank directory). Currently, we have created standard switches with the same configurations hosts 4.1.

  The standard configuration is like this, vswitches 2. 1 for management and vmotion with 2 physical links.

  2nd is for virtual machines with 4 X 1 gig nics. We are not view our uplinks, as we do not have virtual connect for our hp blades.

  We did an analysis, and most of VLANS match through consolidation.  So we need 2 dv switches to 160 guests, one for the IPC and the other is for production.

  Now us created these dv switches and added guests, but haven't removed rising standard switch, since the use of the network is quite high. Also, we cannot accommodate VMs downtime, but we can afford downtime of host (per host at a time).

  As the migration of port groups will migrate all virtual machines on this group of ports from one switch to another, if we do that, we have the same number of uplinks on vds as with vss to carry the load.

  Having said all that, can anyone give us some valuable tips on how to solve this problem and move to vds.

  Thank you.

  Thor.

  To add more worries, vMotion will not VSS for VDS support (correct me if I'm wrong), which excludes the issue of putting a host into maintenance mode, remove all top links from VSS and link them to the VDS and replace the virtual machines on the host.

  vMotion traffic itself does not care, but the workflow of migration requires the machine network virtual source is available on the destination host. It seems that you are due for 10 GbE cards to help face the apparent flood of network traffic.

  To be fair, moving around the virtual machine networks is a rather low-risk. If you plan not to move the vmkernel interfaces, which said you are on a completely different vSwitch, it's really just a matter of ensuring that your VDS is configured with the appropriate uplink slots and groups of ports. You can start a workflow of migration to move physical uplink (vmnic) and the virtual machines at the same time. To test this, you can migrate virtual machines on a host, run a few test VMs and try it.

• Change of distributed to a Standard switch

  Hello

  Guides to migrate from Distributed switch to a Standard switch? I found a lot of guides the other sense, but not of distributed with the standard

  Problem is that the customer did not use distributed, and the system is configured to use distributed now...

  Thanks for the reply

  Hello, the process would be even just reversed, rather than create vDS and the displacement of a vmnic both.  Do the same thing, create a new set of standard vswitches, create your port-groups and move a vmnic and test connectivity and migrate your virtual machines and move the remaining vmnic.

• vSphere Distributed Switch 5.5 traffic filtering and tagging

  Someone had a chance to create a script to update the traffic filtering and marking of area of a group of ports on a vSphere 5.5 Distributed Switch? The settings are only exposed in the web client for Onyx is not an option.

  I need to create a rule with the values below.

  Traffic Filterig and marking:

  Set State enabled

  New rule of network traffic

  Name: name of the traffic rule

  Action: Tag

  CoS value: tag value Update CoS: 4

  Qualifiers of traffic:

  Traffic management: evacuation

  New qualifying traffic system: vMotion

  This is as much as I can get.

  $VDSPortGroup = get-VDSwitch Test - dvSwitch | Get-VDPortGroup Test-PG

  $Spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.DVPortgroupConfigSpec

  $Spec.configVersion = $VDSPortGroup.ExtensionData.Config.ConfigVersion

  $Spec.defaultPortConfig = new-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPortSetting

  $Spec.defaultPortConfig.FilterPolicy = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsFilterPolicy

  Sorry, it took a little longer than expected.

  Try like this

  $dvSwName = "dvSw1".

  $dvPgNames = "dvPg1".

  $dvSw = get-VDSwitch-name $dvSwName

  # Activate LBT

  foreach ($pg in (Get-View-Id $dvSw.ExtensionData.Portgroup |)) Where {$dvPgNames - contains $_.} {Name}))

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.DVPortgroupConfigSpec

  $spec. ConfigVersion = $pg. Config.ConfigVersion

  $spec. DefaultPortConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPortSetting

  $spec. DefaultPortConfig.FilterPolicy = New-Object VMware.Vim.DvsFilterPolicy

  $filter = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsTrafficFilterConfig

  $filter. Nom_agent = "dvfilter-credits-vmware.

  $ruleSet = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsTrafficRuleset

  $ruleSet.Enabled = $true

  $rule = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsTrafficRule

  $rule. Description = "name of traffic rule".

  $rule. Direction = "outgoingPackets."

  $action = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsUpdateTagNetworkRuleAction

  $action. QosTag = 4

  $rule. Action += $action

  $ruleSet.Rules += $rule

  $filter. TrafficRuleSet += $ruleSet

  $spec. DefaultPortConfig.FilterPolicy.FilterConfig += $filter

  $pg. ReconfigureDVPortgroup ($spec)

  }

• Database SQL vCenter that is running on the virtual machine within vsphere

  Hey guys, I was wondering how many of you are running your database remote vcenter on a virtual machine inside your vsphere environment? We always ran the vcenter db on a physical remote outside the vsphere group box, but I am considering the upgrade to sql 2008 R2 and I already have a virtual sql server computer running within vsphere.

  Pro/drawbacks to be aware of the db running on a virtual machine?

  Thanks in advance

  Kevin

  We rotated our SQL database in a VM for a while now.

  Some advantages are for example the wide use of HA and the ability to easily extend if necessary resources. In addition, if you use backup as Veeam software a restore takes only a few minutes from a physical configuration.

  There are a few things when you have to keep in mind:

  -Make sure that your SQL VM database begins before your vCenter (the service does not start if it cannot reach the database), even if it can be fixed manually it might be something you want to keep in mind

  -If you use the distributed switches power risk since data is stored in the database, of course there are solutions for this (keep the traffic on a standard switch management)

  -If you use HA make sure you modify the priority of restarting HA for the virtual machine (you don't want a reboot suddenly)