UCS C200 and NIC Teaming/FailOver

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• Windows 2008 VM and NIC teaming with ether channel

  Hello

  I installed ESXi on an IBM ThinkServer TD100x and that you have created two VM, Windows 2003 Std (32 bit) and Windows Server 2008.

  Both were works well on the network and the ping requests until I have configure Cisco Channel ether using the road based on the source mac hash. The Windows 2003 VM worked very well and was still on the network, but the Windows 2008 VM loses network connectivity, couldn't out ping.

  Are there known issues with Windows 2008 and grouping of NETWORK cards?

  You will need to use the hash of the IP with Etherchannel (manual), LACP (static) or 802.3ad (static) trunking.

  Kind regards

  Collin C. MacMillan

  SR Infrastructure Consultant.

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• UCS C200 M2 R200 - 1120402W Nic will negotiate only 100 MB full

  We have a new UCS C200 M2 server running ESXi 5.0.0 and will be only neg a speed of 100 MB - tried to connect a GLC - T on a 3750 and also Port copper on 2960G - same result.

  Trying hard value speed 1000 in vSphere client produced an error:

  Call 'HostNetworkSystem.UpdatePhysicalNicLinkSpeed' to object 'networkSystem"on ESXi '172.19.99.103' failed.

  Operation failed, the diagnostic report: forcing 1000Mbps or faster may not be supported on this network device, please use autonegotiation call 'HostNetworkSystem.UpdatePhysicalNicLinkSpeed' to object 'networkSystem"on ESXi '172.19.99.103' failed.
  Operation failed, the diagnostic report: forcing 1000Mbps or faster may not be supported on this network device, use rather auto-negotiation

  Adapter is Intel 82576 Gigabit Network Connection

  Just use HUU to version 1.4 - no improvement.

  Thoughts, suggestions?

  Gordon,

  Can you please share the output of following ESXi

  VMware - v

  esxcfg-NICS - l

  ethool-i vmincX

  Do you see the same behavior with the other ports of the NETWORK adapter on the server?

  Padma

• C200 M2 Windows 2008 R2 NIC Teaming question

  I have a c200 M2 Server with a map of map NETWORK Broadcom addon (N2XX-ABPCI01).  I would like to create a NIC team with all 4 cards (2 on board and 2 Broadcom).

  I found the enictool on the CD, but when I run it, it is not announce adapters or teams.

  How can I create a team on this server?

  Thank you

  Dave Harrold

  Hi Dave,.

  Utlities CD/.iso, you can find the BINS utlity for broadcom. This should help you.

  . / Afonso

• Are these viable designs for NIC teaming on UCS C-Series?

  Is this a viable design on ESXi 5.1 on UCS C240 with 2 Quad port nic cards?

  Option A) VMware consolidation of NIC with the load balancing of interfaces vmnic in an configuration active/active through alternate and redundant physical paths to the network.

  Option B) VMware consolidation of NIC with the load balancing of the interfaces in a configuration vmnic Active/Standy by alternate and redundant paths of material to the network.

  Option A:

  

  Option B:

  

  Thank you.

  She really comes down to what means active/active N ° and type of switches upstream.  For ESXi NIC teaming - Active/Active load balancing provided the opportunity for all network links be active for devices different comments.  Grouping can be configured in a few different methods.  The default value is by ID of virtual port where each guest computer is assigned to an active port and then also a spare port.  Traffic to this host would be only sent on a connection at a time.

  For example, suppose 2 Ethernet connections and 4 guests on the ESX host.  Link 1 for switch 1 would be active for 1 and 2 and 2 link to switch 2 backup for 1 and 2.  However 2 link to switch 2 would be active for 3 guests and 4 and 1 link 1 switch backup for 1 and 2 comments.

  The following provides details on the configuration of the card NETWORK is teaming up with VMWare:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1004088

  There are also opportunities for LACP configuration in some situations, but there is a material special considerations on the side of the switch, but also on the host side.

  Keep in mind that the vSwitch does not blindly broadcast/multicast/unknown unicast on all ports.  He has a strict set of rules that prevents loopback.  It is not a traditional L2 redirector so loops are not taken into account in an active/active environment.

  In addition, this document explains VMWare Virtual Networking Concepts.

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/virtual_networking_concepts.PDF

  Steve McQuerry

  UCS - Technical Marketing

• CISCO UCS C200 M2 amber display clear on mem and warning

  Hello

  My company bought 5 units of CISCO UCS C200 M2. The servers are equipped with 2 x 6 core 2.67 GHz. The server was also equipped with 32 GB of ram. One of the shows Server alert light yellow on mem and warning on the front panel. Can someone tell what could possibly cause this problem?

  Thank you

  Logan

  Hi Steve,.

  There could be a faulty MEMORY Strip on the system, in the MMIC, you can check the logs SALT (System event log) that will provide you with more details.

  I give advice you open a TAC case for this, we can take a look at the tech show and understand why accurate and if necessary replace the defective DIMM module / part (if defective).

  Thank you!

  . / Afonso

• NIC team Active standby failover - how to see which physical adapter is actively used at a specific time by a VM or VMKernel port

  Hello, simple question.

  I have a vSwitch with two portgroup VMKernel. The switch is connected with two network adapters. The failover policy is set at the level of Portgroup. PG1 has active nic1 and nic 2 in standby mode. PG2 nic 1 standby and active NIC 2. I want to know via cli or gui, command which nic is actually used for a portgroup at a specific time. Is this possible?

  Thank you!
  Francesco

  You can see the active uplink for each vNIC in the network view (press 'n') with esxtop (r):

  

• NIC teaming and aggregation rate

  Hello

  I need help on configuring NIC teaming on our ESX. We have a HP Server with 6 network adapters I already configured the vSwitch for VMkernal, VMotion and Service Console.

  Now, since the ESX will run at various Web servers I want to do is aggregate throughput of EPS of 1 GB to give me a flow of 4 GB total. What I've done is created a vSwitch and alllocated 4 NICs to the switch and created a port called 'Prod LAN' and receives the NIC 4, also on our Cisco switch I trunked 4 ports.

  What else do I need to do to make sure that I have configured correctly the NICs, so that when we assign the network adapters on the virtual Web server computer it can use aggregate 4 GB throughput. Also that I also want to make sure, if some fail NIC 1,2 or 3, I always have speed on the port.

  Thank you very much...

  Duncan has identified the problem above with what you are proposing.  You may agree with your config if a physical switch entire fails but as stated above, if you lose an single link on one of the aggregates that ESX will add a unique link from the passive cluster causing the switch to become crazy.

• What is the different NIC Teaming policy between vSwitch properties setting and Port-Group

  Hello

  I know that there r two ways to set NIC Teaming policy: vSwtich or Port Group.  What is the different?

  Who is the highest priority?    Could the port group properties overrides the setting of vSwtich? Or just inherit.

  ARO

  Ding

  Yes-

• UCS-C200M2 and the performance of the 1980s...

  Has anyone deployed UCS C200 M2 boxes and tried to team onboard gigabit interfaces? I'm void Mbps deployed VM CUCM 8.5.1 performance using the prescribed Cisco 1000 user model. I ran the NIC and stand alone teams and get the same result, seriously bad performance. I have a Dell 2970 on the same switch running ESXi and am pulling almost gigabit wirline her. The two are running EXSi 4.1. Both are associated by using the road based on the hash of the IP. Same downloads from the ESXi host IP address is dead slow.

  Please open a TAC service request because we need more information about this configuration.

  Just a quick check. You have all the traffic shaping configured on the virtual switch on the ESXi host output ports?

  HTH

  Padma

• iSCSI / vmkernel multipathing vs NIC teaming

  Hello

  I know of Configuration of VMware SAN Guide provides information about how to configure iSCSI multipath with vmkernel interfaces double on various uplinks.

  What are the disadvantages of using basic NIC teaming instead? Just an interface of vmkernel on a vswitch (d) with two uplinks. It will work properly about redundancy and failover?

  Kind regards

  GreyhoundHH wrote:

  What are the disadvantages of using basic NIC teaming instead? Just an interface of vmkernel on a vswitch (d) with two uplinks. It will work properly about redundancy and failover?

  I guess the difference is while using "Port Binding" iSCSI initiator uses vSphere Pluggable Storage Architecture to handle the load balancing/redundancy, that can make better use of multiple paths to NETWORK card available. Otherwise, the initiator will use vmkernel stack ensures redundancy network and balancing in the same way as a normal network traffic.

  I suggest that you look at the great post on iSCSI multi-vendor, I think the 2 statements below will summarize the difference:

  "

  • However, the biggest gain of performance allows the storage system to scale the number of network adapters available on the system. The idea is that multiple paths to the storage system can make better use multiple paths, he has at his disposal than the consolidation of NETWORK cards on the network layer.
  • If each physical NETWORK adapter on the system looks like a port to a path to the storage, the storage path selection policies can make best use of them.

  "

  
  

• Override the port NIC teaming with powercli group?

  Hi all

  Any chance you could lend a hand?

  I have a powercli script that goes out to all of my ESX 4.0 host and add a new port group to vswitch1 with a new VLAN ID. That works well, but I also need to override the NIC teaming on this port group, to set an active NIC and the other to be the backup. (we put NIC failover port groups not the vswitches).

  I see ways to change NIC vswitches grouping settings, but am yet to find a way to change the settings of the NIC collection for groups of ports themselves with powercli?

  Can someone shine a light?

  Thank you

  Try something like:

  Get-VirtualPortGroup-name '' | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Game-NicTeamingPolicy - MakeNicActive "vmnic1" - MakeNicStandby "vmnic0".

  I hope this helps!

• NIC teaming on HP Blade

  I use HP Blades as my servers to host ESX 3.5 update 3. I have only 2 NETWORK ports on each host and I would like to implement the NIC teaming, but I'm confused on whether I would run into any problems if the vmnic should fail.

  I set up vswtich0 with three groups of ports - the primary NETWORK card for my Console Service (VLAN12) and port groups Vmotion (VLAN3) is vmnic0 with vmnic1 failover

  I also created another group of ports for the VMservers vmnetwork (no VLANs) on vswitch0 with vmnic1 as a principal port with vmnic0 my failover group.

  What concerns me, is the port group settings switch to vmnic1? For example, if vmnic0 tilt vmnic1, will I run into issues because the Service Console is running on VLAN12 and Vmotion works on VLAN3, and vice versa with the port vmnetwork group.

  Hello

  You will need to implement VST where you master all the VLAN to the vSwitch through each Teddy.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
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• NIC Teaming Poweredge R420

  Hello:

  I am collecting information to configure NIC teaming on my server Dell poweredge r420.

  Other posts I've read it is mandatory, installing broadcom software and update the firmware of the NIC (Broadcom Netxtreme gigabit ethernet).

  I can't find the broadcom advanced control suite window to set up the consolidation of network cards.

  Can someone help me?

  You can access the Web from Broadcom site and download it here: http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet-nic-netxtreme-i-server or there are updates on the Dell Web site: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails/Product/poweredge-r710?driverId=2T17H&osCode=WS8R2&fileId=2961022443#

  Hope one of these works for you.

  Wheeler Mitzi (Mitch)

• UCS C200 RAID solution

  Hello

  I hope for your help about the technical question about the RAID.

  We bought a server in a rack of Cisco UCS C200. Now I looking for information on the best RAID solution in our case.

  The question:

  As I understand it, there is an integrated RAID solution: Intel ICH10R in UCS C200 server. We use this RAID configuration now and it works OK. However, we wonder if it is worth installing the PCIe controller (we have HP Smart Array P410 (ATA/dis2) card). We use currently 4 SATA and RAID drives works as expected, but we are interested in, if there are all the advantages of the separate RAID controller card. Above all, we are interested of performance benefits as we plan to have a lot of disk writes (records call - about 10-20 calls per hour, lasting 2 minutes on average). We would be happy to stay with RAID integrated if it works stable. On the other hand, we will install the above mentioned Intel RAID card if you say that it would be the best solution about the reliability and wear of the disc.

  I would be grateful for any comments.

  Kind regards

  Vytas

  Vytas,

  Your question is probably down to RAID levels supported for each card.  The performance of each should be relavitley the same, so I would not concentrate on that.

  The only supported RAID controllers are listed here and must be purchased from Cisco:

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/UCS/c/HW/C200M1/install/RAID.html#wp1015625

  "Others' work, but you'd be yourself if you encountered problems with TAC.

  The integrated Intel ICH10R card supports up to four SATA using RAID0 (striped) or RAID1 (mirror) drives.

  If you need one RAID5, 10 or more, then you must a MegaRAID controller to do.

  All RAID controllers provided by Cisco are heavily on trial and could be your best option for reliability and performance.

  Kind regards

  Robert