NIC in ESX

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• Installing additional NIC cards ESX 4i

  Hello

  I would like to install very cards on my ESX Server, this will be used for the backup.  The new NIC card is identical to the NETWORK card of filtration in the system (NC375T).  What commands should I deliver to ensure that ESX 4i is able to see the new maps.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can check if the new adapter is installed well with VI Client > host VMware > Configuration > network card

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• Invisible NIC for ESX but seen by lspci

  This may be a simple solution, but I'm not find resolution.  Run ESX 4.0 on Dell R710 with a NIC four ports on the motherboard and four ports in PCI1 NIC, turning off the system to add a second NIC to four ports PCI2 (same brand and the seller as the first), fed by system up, but does not have the new network adapters plugged into what either.  VCenter brought to the top but the second quad-port NIC is not seen by ESX, but can be seen when I do an lspci | grep 'Ethernet '.  Esxcfg-NICS - l does not show the new NETWORK map either because I guess that it will only show these network cards known or used by ESX.  Is it possible to have the system will reload the drivers without restarting the computer for "Unknown device" NETWORK card ports and allow them to be seen by ESX?  If this isn't the case, should ports be connected to a switch device or network for the ESX to recognize that they exist in order to use?

  Output of commands:

  # lspci | grep 'Ethernet '.

  01: 00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation of Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (rev 20)

  01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation of Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (rev 20)

  02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation of Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (rev 20)

  02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation of Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (rev 20)

  06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation unknown device 10e8 (rev 01)

  06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation unknown device 10e8 (rev 01)

  07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation unknown device 10e8 (rev 01)

  07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation unknown device 10e8 (rev 01)

  0a: 00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

  0a: 00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

  0b: 00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

  0b: 00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

  # esxcfg - NICS - l

  Name PCI Driver link speed Duplex MAC address MTU Description

  vmnic0 01:00.00 bnx2 up to 1000Mbps Full 00:24:e8:80:a4:15 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vmnic1 01:00.01 bnx2 up to 1000Mbps Full 00:24:e8:80:a4:17 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vmnic10 0b: 00.00 igb up to 1000Mbps Full 00: 1B: 21:41:64:f4 1500 Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection

  vmnic11 0b: 00.01 igb up to 1000Mbps Full 00: 1B: 21:41:64:f5 1500 Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection

  vmnic2 02:00.00 bnx2 up to 1000Mbps Full 00:24:e8:80:a4:19 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vmnic3 02:00.01 bnx2 up to 1000Mbps Full 00:24:e8:80:a4:1 b 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vmnic8 0: 00.00 igb up to 1000Mbps Full 00: 1B: 21:41:64:f0 1500 Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection

  vmnic9 0: 00.01 igb up to 1000Mbps Full 00: 1B: 21:41:64:f1 1500 Intel Corporation 82575 GB Gigabit Network Connection

  The drivers for the Intel card neeed to e loading manually - quad port instructions are located herehttp://virtublog.com/2010/01/24/esx-4-0u1-intel-quad-nic-issue/

  Driver located here: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_esxi40_intel_82575_82576_dt/ZHcqYmR0QGpidGR3

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• NC375T quad NIC in ESX 4 U1 - 2 last ports does not work.

  I have a ProLiant DL380 G6 with two cards of NC375T Quad running on VMWare ESX 4 Update 1.

  The last 2 ports on NICs fail network traffic.

  I tried the solution of Document ID: c01989775 http://www13.itrc.HP.com/service/CKI/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en & docid = emr_na-c01989775

  but it does not solve the problem.

  I loaded ESX 4 (RTM) and ESX 4 Update 1.

  I installed both pilots later and one prior work and neither, in fact just v404 causes a kernel panic.

  VMware-ESX-drivers-net-NX-nic_400.4.0.404-1.0.4.00000.185360.ISO

  VMware-ESX-drivers-net-NX-nic_400.4.0.407-1.0.4.00000.213274.ISO

  So I have 2 cards with only 4 of the 8 ports can be used.

  Operating system displays card network and the ports and shows even as it receives packets on ports 4, defective.

  Everyone fell on this and possible have a fix?

  Thank you for your time,

  Scott

  All ports are now sending and receiving traffic. We have confirmed several ways. In our Setup for guest access via the ports of trunk in a dvSwitch, attribution of IP so not individual. I have CDP and correctly increment TX/RX on specific ports and, above all, comments have full network connectivity. Unless I find something else in the trials, the NC375T is good to go. Not bad after about 6 weeks to turn around.

  I used HP NC-series QLogic online Firmware Upgrade Utility version 10, copied manually and connected the bootable DVD version 9 Firmware update. I have flash in Windows 7 after installation of the workstation with the Windows 2 K 8 driver.

  The Description of the QLogic update refers only to the 10 GB adapter, but the notes to show to the rest of the elements. The new firmware is 4.0.526 for the NC375T.

  HP NC - series QLogic online Firmware Upgrade Utility and Diagnostic Tool for Windows

  Supported devices and features:

  This software supports the following network adapters:

  HP NC522SFP Dual Port 10GbE server adapter

  HP NC522m Dual Port 10GbE adapter BL - c multifunction

  HP NC375i integrated Quad Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter

  HP NC375i 1 Gb w/HP NC524 10 GB

  HP NC375T PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server adapt

• How to install the new NIC in ESX 4 without having to rebuild?

  I have a server ESX 4.0 (u1) running with a NIC card double port gig.

  I need to replace the network adapter with a quad port NIC dual port.

  I prefer to install the new NIC card and do not have to reinstall ESX for her to see the map.

  Can you give me any advice or point me to the documentation that describes how to do this?

  Thank you for your help.

  If the new NETWORK adapter is on the HCL, simply turn off and install the card NETWORK. No reinstallation is required.

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• Adding 2nd NIC killed ESX Server

  All,

  Thank you for taking the time to read my post. Here are the environment and then my question.

  3 - DELL R510 - Dual Core Quad - Intel systems

  The area has "2" Integrated NIC

  as well as "2" QUAD Port - PCI Intel network interface cards

  NIC 0 - integrated NETWORK card is a system where installed- and it is plugged into a standard Switch CISCO GIG, the tag VLAN 108

  NIC 1 - integrated is configured for iSCSI connectivity

  LOCATION 0 - Port Quad PCI NIC

  Port # 3 is connected to a GROUP of CIRCUITS on a CISCO SWITCH with VLAN 108, 104, 107 and 110 on it

  Port # 1 is used for the 2nd iSCSI connection

  LOCATION 1 - Port Quad PCI NIC

  # 7 port is connected to a different GROUP of CIRCUITS on a CISCO SWITCH with VLAN 108, 104, 107 and 110 on it

  All three servers are installed with ESX4 update 1

  When I go into vCenter to one of the three servers and go to the primary Switch virtual networking, if I add #3 NIC or Port #7 NIC to the virtual switch (it currently integrated NIC 0 in) the system disconnects the network and to connect to vCenter losses and the entire network. If physically I reboot the ESX Server, it is NOT on the network. I have the tag VLAN in NIC0 defined 4095 to accept all the VLANS as well. (I tried with and without the tag of VLAN 4095 - same result)

  Here are my questions:

  1 - Why is - what happens? How it should be configured?

  2. is there a way to get NIC0 to return to the network without having to re - install ESX?

  I reinstalled the boxes several times now and tried many variations of combinations of nic, and they all end up with the ESX Server disconnected from the network and does not.

  Really looking for some common sense here... Please and thank you.

  Hmmmm, shooting a little in the dark, but I think your next 2 steps are:

  (1) get the SC (vswif0) MAC and check your MAC address table switch to fly throughout of ports

  (2) on the console, use esxcfg-vswitch for uplink associated with the Group of port SC the first list, and then delete the 2nd network card.  This should get your SC direct return and leave the new map available NETWORK the vswitch, simply not group ports SC.  (And you don't have to reinstall :-).)

  Virtualization of happy!

  JP

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• Intel S3210shlc Server got two integrated NICs, but ESX 3.5 shows only a single network adapter

  Hi team,

  I have an Intel Server Motherboard S3210SHLC, now I installed VMware ESX 3.5. In the configuration in the network part, I can only see 1 NIC card. How can I find the 2 nd NIC card, that is how it can be possible. GUi based or CLI based. Whatever it is would do it. Please guide.

  Regrads

  Sylvia

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/129417

  Read this topic. ICH9 is supported by ESX 3.5 dpunishment.

  StarWind Software R & D

• Can't see the new NIC in ESX 3.5U4 (NC7170)

  Hello

  I added a NETWORK card double my ESX 3.5 U4 server port, however, I can't see it under network adapters. Here are the HP NC7170 cards that are on the HCL and use the e1000 driver. I've successfully used these cards before, however, I have never tried to add a network card after an ESX installation was made. I repeat not rather an installation just to get the OS to see the network map.

  Runs the command lspci, in the middle of all the other recognizable NIC, I see this:

  11:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: unknown device 0329 (Rev. 09)

  11:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: device unknown 032 a (rev 09)

  Does anyone know why this NETWORK adapter is not recognized?

  How can I get ESX to recognize this NETWORK card?

  Thank you!

  on my way home, I remember that in previous versions of esx, there was an order of search/scan for new hardware, but I don't think that his associates more...

  I think running a

  > esxcfg-boot - p

  Will force the system looking for new PCI devices, but since your server see them as unknown, I assume that the operating system knows they are there? -What does mean

  > esxcfg-NICS - l

  diisplay? which shows as unknown as a PCI device network cards?  The next step I would try would be updated the firmware from 'server' itself...

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• Use of NIC outside ESX

  Hello

  We lack ESX 3.5 on a server with 3 cards of IBM Pro/1000 PT PCIe quad. Currently none of the network adapters on these cards are used and ifconfig shows them as vmnic2 - vmnic13.

  We want to take one of those unused cards and assign an IP address. We do NOT want to be part of the vswif0, or the Service Console or anything like that. ESX server has no need to be involved in this CARD care and feeding at all. We are trying to create a private network of dorsal between ESX server and another Unix server.

  root@ESX# ifconfig vmnic5 IP netmask NM upwards

  SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied

  SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address

  SIOCGIFADDR: Cannot assign requested address

  SIOCSIFBROADCAST: Cannot assign requested address

  All the research I found shows us how to create a vswif0 interface or a service Console interface, etc. No one seems to know or want to configure just an old plain NIC on the server for one use other than by ESX.

  We are concerned, the server VM has no need to access these to all network interface cards. To this end, we tried:

  root@ESX# vmkload_mod u e1000

  modprobe e1000 root@ESX#

  /lib/modules/2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix/kernel/drivers/NET/e1000/e1000.o: init_module(2): no such device

  Tip: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect parameters, including invalid i/o or IRQ module.

  You can find more information in syslog or the output of dmesg

  /lib/modules/2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix/kernel/drivers/NET/e1000/e1000.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o failed

  /lib/modules/2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix/kernel/drivers/NET/e1000/e1000.o: insmod e1000 failed

  So, it is less useful, and network interface cards disappeared completely from the system. So we ran vmkload_mod e1000 and they reappear as vmnic2 - vmnic13 again.

  How can I put an IP address on one or more of these network cards - with or without having to go through the services of esx?

  Thank you!

  Using the VI Client is easier to connect directly to the host.

  Select Configuration-> network

  Click Add a network

  Select "Service Console" as the type of

  Select the NETWORK card you want to use

  Give him the IP that you want to use.

  This will create an vswif1 interface that is in reality a second IP address in the same (and only) Service Console

• How to manually configure the IP, subnet, gateway on the new NIC in ESX Server 3.5

  Hello, first let me say that I am relatively new on ESX Server and so the question I ask here may seem trivial but I looked through the documentation and other threads and that you have not found quite what I'm looking for.

  I have an ESX Server 3.5 with a number of production virtual machines running works very well.  I need to install a second NETWORK adapter because my use of the network will go through the roof, once I convert a production server used in a virtual machine on this machine.  I have a server Dell PE 2950 and I bought an Intel Pro/1000 PT dual port PCI-e adapter that is on the list of hardware supported.  In the reading I did, every reason to believe that when I set up the server, the new network cards will appear in the VIC where I can assign to a new Vswitch and so forth, so I get it.  What I don't see in the VIC is a way to specify the NETWORK adapter settings.

  The problem is that the switch I connect to, put in place by our network management staff, will not be DHCP settings of NETWORK card for me, I have to manually configure the IP, subnet and gateway until I can start talking.  When I initially installed ESX, I was able to provide all parameters of NETWORK card installation - which is not the case now with the new NETWORK card and the operating system all this up and running.  How do I do this?  Thanks for any help.

  ... BillH

  Adding another physical NETWORK card to your vSwitch will make this new Teddy to comply with policies of vSwitch.  In particular, the load balancing algorithm will determine how the additional bears will get used.  By default, this is done with switch port ID.  This means that each vm NIC that feeds, will choose the next available bear to talk about.  The virtual NIC will essentially be Robin and choose the next Teddy online to talk it through and will so remain like that until a failure condition occurs, or the virtual machine is restarted.

  If you know a particular VM is a high user of I/O, and you want to separate its traffic from the rest of your virtual machine, and then create a new portgroup on vSwitch0, assign this new portgroup 3rd Teddy and use the other two as before.  In addition, in your regular exchanges, remove or make sleep 3rd Teddy.  In this way you completely isolate the heavy vm from the rest of your systems.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert 2009

• How to assign a VLAN to physical NIC in ESX 3.5

  Hello-

  I thought I knew how to do this, but I can't seem to find the screen where you can assign a VLAN to physical NICS in an ESX 3.5 Server?  Could someone please tell me where it is?

  Thank you very much

  Do you mean in networks:

  To change the label of network and VLAN ID for a group of ports

  1. connect to the VMware VI Client and select the host from the inventory Panel.

  2. click on the Configuration tab, and then click Network.

  3. on the right side of the screen, find the vSwitch to change, and then click Properties for the vSwitch.

  4. click on the Ports tab.

  5. Select the port group, and then click on edit.

  6. click on the general tab.

  7. change the label of network or VLAN ID , and then click OK to save the new settings.

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• Try to install ESX 4.0 on Dell Optiplex 380 - NETWORK adapter driver issue machine

  Try to install ESX at home on a Dell Optiplex 380, with Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @2.93 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM. Installation keep saying NETWORK adapter detection failed. do not get the NIC for ESX drivers. NIC details as follows: network: Broadcom 57XX Gigabit Integrated Controller, 5721 1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI-E, BCM95722 PCI-E NIC Driver - Version: A05 - name OEM: Broadcom.

  I had a similar problem, I tried to install ESX on a Dell Inspiron, but the on-board NETWORK interface was not picked up.

  I looked around and I bought the following NIC after reading the reviews and it has worked very well for me since then.

  EXPI9301CTBLK Intel 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps PCI-Express adapter 1 x RJ45 network

• Broadcom 57711 + ESX/ESXi 4.1 + Jumbo frames

  Having a few problems getting Broadcom 57711 NIC working on ESX/ESXi 4.1 with MTU 9000.

  ESX/ESXi 4.0 U2 I have no problems to do and work MTU 9000 and I can push our strong enough EQL PS6010 SAN get 550 000 kbit/s with e/s meter runs inside 4 x VM.

  I read the documentation and found that an MTU of 1500 is supported only for the NIC in ESX/ESXi 4.1 57711. It has somethig to do with the fact that these cards have hardware iSCSI unloading, there is additional iSCSI adapters that appear under the storage adapters heading 4.1 hosts.

  I everything configured properly with 1:1 binding maps iSCSI network to ports VMK iSCSI with an MTU of 1500. When configured, this is the max that I can get out the SAN is 280 000 kbit/s. If I try the same process using the virtual machine a MTU of 9000 / host appears to stop responding.

  While I understand that it is a limitation of 1500 when using iSCSI NIC hardware I am unable to get the iSCSI Software to work with a MTU of 9000 on ESX/ESXi 4.1. If I try the software iSCSI using a MTU of 9000 of the VM / host appears to stop responding.

  Is also a limitation, or am I missing something.

  Is there anyone else out there has the same problems as me?

  VCP3 & VCP4 32846

  VSP4

  VTSP4

  Looks like a CD to update the Broadcom Driver (1.60.50.v41.2) was recently published in the area of downloads/drivers & tools vsphere.  I have not tried yet, hopefully, it will solve this problem.

• Physical NIC Max connect to vswitch

  Hello

  What is the maximum physical NETWORK card, I can connect to vswitch?

  I would say the number is equal to the number of physical NIC in ESX host max...

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R40/vsp_40_config_max.PDF

  / Rubeck

• Chassis & 10GbE blade M1000e through Modules

  We rotated M620 blades with 1 GB Pass Through modules without any problem. The M620s have the Qlogic\Broadcom cards mezzanines KR 10 GB for slots chassis A1\A2.

  We have just bought a few Pass through modules of KR 10GbE and exchanged out them. in the same locations of A1\A2. When the configuration of the BIOS, we get green link is turned on with our Cisco Nexus switch which shows a connection on the port, but when ESXi6 is loaded there is no link (orange light just on the module). NIC in ESX is set to automatic (will not force the 10 GB according to VMWare).

  Tested updates, driver updates, change cables Twinax Dell SFP + and fiber but no link. If I put the 1GbE modules back in they work fine.

  Strangely, at one point I did get network link in ESX running a single passthrough but have not been able to recreate it. Am I missing something that I do not see a reason for this which is why they should not work? This chassis we test on is quite old (2008) and we use just to test before deploy us in our new M1000e chassis. What is the material inside the frame at the origin of a problem that has subsequently been updated?

  You should be fair exchange in the chassis with the median plan 1.1.