NPIV with VIC 1240 and ESX

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• How many vNIC on B200 M3 with VIC 1240 + extender?

  Hello

  Asking to confirm my resoning/interpretation of B200 M3 with VIC 1240 + extensible architecture.

  I'll apply vSphere 5.1 works UCS B200 M3 equipped with blades with VIC 1240 + expanders mezzanine.

  If I understand the documentation, all the physical links through the fabric between the host and the IOM are automatically approved by UCS, so if I don't create only one UCS vNIC by fabric, ESXi must 'see' vmnic with 40 Gbps capacity (with limitation of 10 Gbps for the single 'flow').

  Say this another way - there is no need to create 8 vNIC to use all 8 physical links?

  Nice day!

  With the VIC 1240 and Extender port and 2208 hypervisor ESX will be able to see an aggregation of links total of 40G network card.

• ISCSI performance with HP DL160 G6 and ESX 4.0

  I feel iSCSI performance with HP DL160 G6 and ESX 4.0 servers and would like to help with this.

  I have Setup iSCSI on 3 * ESX 4.0 host.

  Each have a corresponding single target and a single LUN on the SAN. The LUNS are formatted as fmfs3 types.

  Each host is connected to the QNAP San in the same way via a Gigabit switch.

  All NICs operate at 1 GB.

  To test the performance I use vmkfstools to clone a drive from the local store to the LUN

  On the first host (a DL140 G3) performance is good to 48 MB/s.

  On the 2 DL160 performance is very poor and barely reach 2 Mbps

  During cloning, DL160 servers save also on several occasions by the following in/var/log/wmkwarning:
  Vmkernel servername: 0:05:23:53.214 cpu2:4308) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRetryCommand: device 'naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx': waiting for updated status of fast path for blocked with e/s failover. No prior reservation is on the device.
  Vmkernel servername: 0:05:23:54.195 cpu3:4210) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttemptFailover: try tipping unit "naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" world - order 0x4100051a20c0

  I made sure the servers are up-to-date:
  DL160 G6 Configuration:
  ESX 4.0.0 build-702116
  2 * NIC HP NC362i GB (firmware 1.7.2, driver 1.3.19.12.1)
  1 * smart Array P212 controller (firmware 5.14)

  The SAN server configuration:
  QNAP Ts-459u-rp (firmware Build 0302 T 3.6.1)

  I looked everywhere for an answer.
  I also tried the "esxcfg-advcfg - s 1/VMFS3/FailVolumeOpenIfAPD" as suggested on some positions.
  All to nothing does not.

  Any help / advice would be appreciated!

  is this software iscsi or nobody to support iscsi?

  Because all messages from vmhba0... Usually the software iscsi Setup with vmhba33 or vmhba36...

  Can you check vmhba0 keeps the volume...

• 2 ESX 3.5 with 64 bit and 1 ESX 3.5 with 32 bit

  Hello

  I have a problem with the CPU of my ESX. I have 1 virtual Client and three ESX. ESX all have the same CPU model, but two of them are configured with 64 bit because I ask for him.

  Now, I want to configure the latest ESX, but I don't remember to do. I know that I need modificate something in the BIOS of my ESX for running the 64-bit operating system.

  The main problem is that I can't do the Vmotion with two of my ESX and I want to do it with all.

  Can someone help me, please.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Elena.

  You must enable the extensions of virtualization (usually referred to as virtualization or VT support).

  Then be sure to power off the system.

• Not supported. of static vNIC to the Palo and Vic CNAs for ESX 5

  Hello

  I looked everywere see that clearly described. Most of the sources list only the no. dynamic vNIC taken in charge. Then I found a document describing the no. adapters for static and dynamic types for some operating systems and ESX 4. But not ESX 5. Someone at - it a CISCO document describing this? I think documentation is vey vague about that.

  If no doc, tdll just me, please... M81kr and CIV

  The calculation as Abi said is based on the number of uplinks recognized.

  The calculation is [15 * (number of links recognized IOM)]-2.

  1 uplink [15 * 1] = - 2 = 13 vNIC/vHBAs

  Uplink 2 = 15 * 2] - 2 = 28 vNIC/vHBAs

  4 uplink = [15 * 4] - 2 = 56 vNIC/vHBAs

  Source: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/configuration_limits/2.0/b_UCS_Configuration_Limits_2_0.html

  Kind regards

  Robert

• 2808 LAG for use with VMware ESXi and Linux collage

  I posted the month last about setting up my work with groups LAG http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-switches/f/866/t/19537080.aspx servers (I'll effectively implementing implement this Saturday)

  I decided to buy a 2808 for my ESXi server get more aggregated connections to my staff iSCSI Linux server but now I'm worried I might have made a mistake to buy the 2808.

  After looking in the manual before I realized I could have been mistakenly assuming that the 2808 had STP and LACP, as I can't find LACP anywhere in the PDF file. I guess that the configuration of my Linux machine for 802.3ad is out (a hope to make mode 4), so now for the configuration of my house, I wonder (* 1 *) that I have to configure my VMware NIC team like and what mode of binding should I use on my Linux host? As for the section at the top (my working configuration) (* 2 *) I don't know what to do about the road other than the leave as 'route based on originating virtual port ID "? (This is how our other data centers are configured, but I'm waiting for my admin network as agglomerates ESXi hosts are configured with the channels of port on our cisco switches)

  For the House, I want to try to increase the bandwidth by using three NICs in each server, I was hoping that it works:
  VMware: Route of IP hash function?
  w/Linux: balance-alb?

  -VMware:
  Before you begin:

  • The default load balancing strategy is route based on the port virtual origin ID. If the physical switch uses the aggregation of links, route based on the IP hash load balancing should be used. For more information, see host requirements for the aggregation of links for ESX and ESXi (1001938) and the guide of VMware Virtual Networking Concepts .
  • LACP support was introduced in vSphere 5.1 on distributed vSwitches and requires additional configuration. For more information, see activation or deactivation of LACP on a group of ports Uplink using the vSphere Client Web (2034277).
  • Ensure that the Protocol of aggregation VLAN and link (if any) are correctly configured on the physical switch ports.

  -Linux:
  * Descriptions of bonding modes *.
  + Mode 0 balance-rr: Round-robin policy: transmit packets in the sequential order of the first available through the last high school. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.

  + 1 active-backup mode: Active-backup policy: only one slave in the link is active. A different slave becomes active if and only if, the active slave fails. MAC address of the binding is visible from the outside on a single port (NIC) to avoid confusion between the switch. This mode provides fault tolerance. The first option affects the behavior of this mode.

  + 2 balance-xor mode: XOR policy: transmit based [(adresse MAC XOR avec destination MAC traiterait de source) modulo County slave]. This selects the slave even for each destination MAC address. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.

  + 3 broadcast mode: broadcasting policy: transmits everything on all slave interfaces. This mode provides fault tolerance.

  + Mode 4 802.3ad: IEEE 802.3ad dynamic aggregation of links. Creates aggregation groups who share the same speed and duplex settings. Use all the slaves in the active aggregator according to the 802.3ad specification.

  -Prerequisite:
  -1.Ethtool support in the base drivers to retrieve the speed and duplex of each slave.
  -Switch 2.A which takes care of IEEE 802.3ad dynamic aggregation of links. Most of the switches will require some type of configuration to activate 802.3ad mode.

  + Mode 5 balance-tlb: Adaptive load balancing transmission: Channel link that doesn't require any special switch support. Outgoing traffic is distributed according to the intensity of the current (relative speed) on each slave. Inbound traffic is received by the current slave. If the receiving slave fails, another slave takes over the MAC address of the failed receiving slave.

  -Prerequisite:
  -1.Ethtool support in the base drivers to retrieve the speed of each slave.

  + 6 balance-alb mode: Adaptive load balancing: includes balance-tlb plus receive balancing (rlb) for IPV4 traffic and doesn't require any special switch support. Receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation. Link driver intercepts the ARP replies sent by the local system on their way and replaces the hardware address of source with the unique hardware address of one of the slaves in the bond as different counterparts use different physical addresses for the server.

  The topic dell nearest you, I have found a useful was: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/networking/f/4454/t/19415629.aspx

  my previous post was more concerned with VLAN tagging and spanning tree issues, but now I see I should have feared groups LAG it as well.

  Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance all :)

  -

  PS. http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/dell-powerconnect-2800-series-spec_sheet.pdf said that the 2800 series supports LACP, so if I'm worried about anything on my iSCSI side slap me please in the face, but I guess even in this case, I'm still not sure how to configure the ESXi host because it does not support LACP without vSphere and my original configuration is a free version , so I have no web vSphere management needed to make the LACP allow the change.

  Not sure if it is of no use: example configuration of EtherChannel / switches control protocol LACP (Link Aggregation) with ESXi/ESX and Cisco/HP (1004048), but that's where I was to base the choice on IP hash from.

  It must have the support of layer 3 to achieve IP hash, IP addressing is a 3-layer technology, so a 6200 series or higher or the soon to be released N3000 series.

• Table with fixed header and the left column

  I created a table in my application with the fixed left column (left most column is fixed and remaining columns are scrolling from left to right). is it possible to create a table with fixed position and fixed left column?

  Suppose there are 50 rows and 10 columns in my paintings, and only 3 columns and 15 rows are visiable on the screen

  (1) when the user scroll left to right left only most of the columns must be fixed. Remaining cap of the table and column scroll left to right and vice versa. also

  (2) when user scroll high high bottems single topic most must be fixed and remaining all lines (with to the left most column) should be scrollable.

  I am able to put in place a point at the top, but not both. Please suggest

  "If I repopulate the value in the cell when user scrolling, shell, I get scrolling effect correctly as it only shows half cell when the user highlight half of the cell."

  Approach using TablelayoutManager display single cells and scrolling would be cell at a time.  And Yes, you will need to override navigationMovement and n of methods appropriate TouchEvent your TableLayoutManager so that he knows when to fill the cells.

  Another alternative is to have four managers, we don't the the upper left corner (the dead angle), one to make the top row (column headings), one to make the left column (row headings), and the other to do the rest (data).  Place all these in a delicate header and line manager.  Only allow the user to scroll the data part.  Have the difficult Manager to listen the scroll events.  Then have the wily Manager add and remove the dummy column and header line managers as appropriate.  Note that these topic fields would not good passes, they would be either there or they would not be displayed. That would give you your 1/2 a scroll of the cell.  And you wouldn't have to substitute anything to detect movement, you would have left the listener do scrolling for you.

• UCS C420M3 server with VIC 1225, can't see the ethernet LOM ports

  Hi Guyz,

  We have C420M3 server with VIC 1225 connected on PCIe slot, with fabric Interconnet.

  After you have installed the OS & drivers, vNIC created the VIC 1225 by the service profile appear, but 4 gig on server LOM ports do not appear.

  Any idea. ?

  Thank you

  If you incorporate your rack server to UCSM, you will be able to use the LOM ONLY ports for traffic of Mgmt, when you join the server mode to 'Dual Wire'.

  It is useless (unless you have one for a special reason, I do not intend at this very moment) to use ports LOM, once you entered the server, precisely because of the 1225 VIC is not a regular NIC card or a regular HBA, it is indeed a CNA (Converged Network Adapter), which essentially allows you to do in a map , what you would do with two (which means "what you would do with a NETWORK card and HBA separated')

  When you have a VIC card, you actually have the ability to create up to 256 virtual interfaces (this is the capacity of the equipment, always limited by the operating system, please keep this in mind), this is the reason why, after the server is integrated, entirely rely on the interfaces in the Service profile instead of the physical interfaces.

  Find more info here:

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/products/interfaces-modules/unified-computi...

  You have a specific reason to use the LOM ports rather than create 2 additional virtual interfaces in Server Service profile?

  -Kenny

• How to configure the agent to monitor performance only the vcenter vmware and esx, not need to monitor virtual machines

  How to configure the agent to monitor performance only the vcenter vmware and esx, not need to monitor virtual machines

  This is not possible with the way in which we collect information.

• Best Linux for host? ... and ESX vs. Workstation

  I've been running VM Workstation since 1999.  I just built a physical machine for my lab at home I want to only run on VMS.  I have two questions.

  What is the best linux for VM Workstation 8 host?

  I went the compatitibility guide at:

  http://PartnerWeb.VMware.com/comp_guide2/search.php?deviceCategory=software & testConfig = 17

  and put:

  Workstation

  8.0

  all the

  all the

  Linux

  Desktop

  64

  and it happens with Mandriva and SUSE.  It's weird.  No Red Hat?  No Ubuntu?  No Debian?  Mandriva is a French company funded by the Russians, which hurts me a little inside, and SUSE is not free.  It makes me wonder if this page is current.

  Which leads to my next question. ... Are there not some hypervisor product that does not even need a host operating system?  What ESX?  I can get all the features of Workstation (snapshots, etc.) with this hypervisor product? ... and of course, I can't spend $2,000 for a lab at home.   It seems to me that to remember that one of these products is free,... was it ESXi?  Can someone explain the differences between the workstation and ESX in a few sentences.  But if I need the version ESX is $2000, then too bad.

  I suppose that, ideally, I would like to install Workstation as a hypervisor (no host operating system).  Is there anyway to achieve this?  What do you suggest me?

  ESXi uses a very minimal video driver - a computer display virtual itself is not possible
  This is why you must use a second physical machine to view virtual machines

  inside the virtual machines, you get only a virtual video card - playing the latest games inside a virtual machine is not possible

  > or that, it cannot run on an i7? ... once again, really?

  This is not correct - do not know who told you that...
  ESXi is very picky when it comes to disk controllers - fake Raids and cheap stuff is not supported - but it will work with normal SATA drives

• Issue between Cisco and ESX switch

  It is a small deployment with an ESX Server running a Windows Small Business SERVER 2003.

  ESX server has 2 network cards, previously a NIC was connected to a small FastEthernet Switch netgear and all workstations have been working on it.

  I replaced the netgear with a Cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-S and the field still works fine, the problem is that I can't connect to the service console or the VI client from a computer connected to the switch.

  I can't ping the IP switch ESX service console and also can not ping the switch since the service console.

  Switch and ESX console can ping the Windows Virtual Machine and the virtual machine can ping both of them. Therefore, I can get to the VI client via Wirtual Machine (not the best scenario to manage one of its right VMS ESX host?)

  I don't know what the problem is, but it sounds a lot there is a problem with the configuration of port / vlan on the cisco switch.

  Can a Cisco expert help out me here?

  Here are some details of the configuration.

  Port group service Console and the port Vm group do not use no matter what config VLAN on the ESX Server.

  CONFIG NETWORK ESX

  # esxcfg - NICS - l

  Name PCI Driver link speed Duplex MAC address MTU Description

  vmnic0 0b: 00.00 bnx2 up to 1000Mbps Full 00: 1a: 64:b6:06:92 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vmnic1 0b: 00.01 bnx2 up to 100 Mbit/s Full 00: 1a: 64:b6:06:94 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vusb0 nickname cdc_ether Up 0Mbps 02: 1a: 64:b6:06:99 half 1500 unknown unknown

  # esxcfg - vswitch - l

  Switch name Num used Ports configured Ports MTU rising ports

  64 6 64 1500 vmnic0 vSwitch0

  Name PortGroup VLAN ID used rising Ports

  PORTS 0 1 vmnic0 VM GROUP

  0 1 vmnic0 Console service

  Switch name Num used Ports configured Ports MTU rising ports

  64 3 64 1500 vmnic1 vSwitch1

  Name PortGroup VLAN ID used rising Ports

  BIG POND ADSL 0 1 vmnic1

  # esxcfg - vswif - l

  Port Group/DVPort IP IP family name address Netmask Broadcast Enabled TYPE

  vswif0 Service Console IPv4 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255 true STATIC

  # ifconfig

  Lo encap:Local Loopback link

  INET addr:127.0.0.1 mask: 255.0.0.0

  RACE of LOOPING 16436 Metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 1310258 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 1310258 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:0

  RX bytes: 4531037961 (4.2 GiB) TX bytes: 4531037961 (4.2 GiB)

  vmnic0 Link encap HWaddr 00: 1a: 64:B6:06:92

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 94579247 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 99834049 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 127899970453 (119.1 GiB) TX bytes: 19056702095 (17.7 GiB)

  Interruption: 209 memory: 92000000-92012100

  vmnic1 Link encap HWaddr 00: 1a: 64:B6:06:94

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 3585973 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 3018690 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 2304776001 (2.1 GiB) TX bytes: 1021855293 (974,5 MiB)

  Interruption: 217 memory: 94000000-94012100

  vswif0 Link encap HWaddr 00:50:56:45:43:6 C

  INET addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 mask: 255.255.255.0

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 367248 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 126300 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 33905320 (32.3 MiB) TX bytes: 154760077 (147,5 MiB)

  vusb0 Link encap HWaddr 02: 1a: 64:B6:06:99

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Fall of RX packets: 341442 errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped TX packets: 0 errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 26973918 (25.7 MiB) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)

  CISCO SWITCH CONFIGURATION

  Port on which the ESX nic is connected to:

  interface GigabitEthernet0/1

  switchport mode trunk

  switchport nonegotiate

  switchport port-security

  aging of the switchport port security 2

  security violation restrict port switchport

  inactivity of aging switchport port-security type

  macro description cisco-computer desk

  spanning tree portfast

  spanning tree enable bpduguard

  !

  ******************************************

  CONFIGURATION OF VLAN

  !

  interface Vlan1

  IP 192.168.0.253 255.255.255.0

  !

  interface Vlan2

  Description management Vlan

  no ip address

  !

  interface Vlan10

  Test description Vlan

  IP 192.168.121.253 255.255.255.0

  !

  Default IP gateway 192.168.0.1

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  I think I've seen this before. I'm not super familiar with this switch, but I think that the problem is with cisco-computer office macro.

  Try using the macro switch cisco instead since you are addressing a vSwitch on the other end. You can always check the mac address table and see if your Mac to the vswif (service console) make their appearance. If they are not then appear this is an inconsistency in the port between the Cisco Switch and vSwitch.

  Louis

• SAN LUN and ESX growing data warehouses

  I know it's more a question of SAN as a matter of VM, but it is also related to the virtual machines.

  I don't know much about the configuration of a San, first. Laughing out loud

  My question is this...

  I have a SAN FAST600 who has a number of derined LUNS which are no longer in use.

  I want to do is blast them away and then grow my VM LUN so I have a great store of VM data.

  My boss told me that we cannot expand a LUN when it has been set, is it true?

  If you are using vSphere/ESX4, you can grow a VMFS after push you your underlying logic unit number.  You couldn't do this before with earlier versions of ESX.

  -KjB

• Running the VCS 4 and ESX 4 and computer virtual on a PC using VMWare Workstation 7.01

  Hello

  I could not install on my PC Windows 7.01 vCenter. I was getting a "28035.Setup error". I was told that you can run vcs on a virtual machine, so I decided to create a machine virtual W2K3 just for my VCS. I have 1 VM ESX 4.0 and 1 VCS 4.0 VM on my PC. I'm using VMWare Workstation 7 to join my VM and vSphere Client on the desktop. How can I run VCS? Normally, it will show on vShere customer. Do I need to reinstall from the CD of vCenter? Any ideas? Thank you.

  When I try to add my vcs on the domain controller server

  I don't understand exactly what you are trying to add?

  Basically, what you need to run a test environment is:

  -a domain with DNS controller and - if you want - DHCP

  -Member Server windows on which you are installing vCenter Server

  -one or more host ESX (i)

  On your client, you must install the vSphere Client and connect to the server vCenter Server by using your credentials of the AD. Using the vSphere Client, you can add hosts ESX(I) and your installation configuration.

  André

• vCenter server and ESX versions

  Hello friends, can you please answer these questions:

  (1) what additional features we get in vCenter server Essentials

  in comparison with vCenter server Standard?

  (2) is it possible to have some ESX servers upgraded to 4.0

  3.5 in our infrastructure and some left at the same old ESX 3.5 level? Do

  they coexist? If they coexist, managing servers ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 with

  the same server vCenter 4.0?

  see you soon

  Jdsony5 wrote:

  (2) is it possible to have some ESX servers upgraded to 4.0

  3.5 in our infrastructure and some left at the same old ESX 3.5 level? Do

  they coexist? If they coexist, managing servers ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 with

  the same server vCenter 4.0?

  Yes, but you must have a license for 3.5 systems running server. The vSphere vCenter must be configured to point to this license server. One solution is to install this on the server vSphere vCenter and decomission license server when all the ESX servers running 4.x.

  Another option is to keep the old server licenses running and just the new vCenter for that one pint.

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• Controller of active/active storage and ESX 3.5 U4

  My SAN controllers are configured as active/active, both quick (?) question.

  ---

  Can I not load balance my ESX 3.5 host traffic HBA (2 HBAs for each host of course)?  Manage the paths of dialogue shows ' round Robine as "Experimental" only that I'm obviously not to use in production.

  My guess is that I can't have ESX host HBA not experimental load balancing up to what we have upgraded to ESX 4.0... I just wanted to hear here officially I can tell my boss ' see? We HAVE upgrade for it, you fool! »

  With 3.5 and active/active storage, good politics is fixed path.

  The load balancing is experimental.

  Or you need to upgrade to vSphere.

  André