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• Cisco VMfex port-profile manager HyperV 2.2 UCS 2012R2

  Could not locate the files of instalation for Cisco VMfex Manager of port-profile for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. Without it, we were able to use VMFEX/SRIOV vNIC on our UCS system. UCS Firmware is 2.2

  W2012 R2 does not appear on the support matrix

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/TD/docs/unified_computing/UCS/interoperability/matrix/r_hcl_B_rel2-21.PDF

  

• Ports VMK for nfs group

  Create a new port of vmk on a vSwitch, add it to a group of specific ports and enable vMotion. If a group of ports corresponding to the specified name does not exist then it is created.

  1	New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost <host> -PortGroup <PG Name> -VirtualSwitch <vswitch> -IP <IP> -SubnetMask <Mask> -VMotionEnabled:$true -Confirm:$false

  You can enable or disable a vmk for traffic management, vMotion or fault tolerance. All are disabled by default and each of them can be activated when the vmk is created, similar to how vMotion has been enabled in the above example. To disable just change $true to $false.

  1 2 3

  Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost <host> -name <vmk> | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -ManagementTrafficEnabled:$true -confirm:$false Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost <host> -name <vmk> | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -FaultToleranceLoggingEnabled:$true -confirm:$false Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost <host> -name <vmk> | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMotionEnabled:$true -confirm:$false

  Change the IP address of a vmk

  1	Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost <host> -name <vmk> | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -IP <ip> -confirm:$false

  And delete a vmk

  1	Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost <host> -name <vmk> | Remove-VMHostNetworkAdapter -confirm:$false

  ===

  

  I am creating above

  Nowhere I'm option specify the vlan... IE no mgmt ft/no vmtion/no on the vmk also in my case, that nothing will be

  Please suggest

  When you have the portgroupname, you can use the Set-VirtualPortgroup cmdlet to create/modify the VlanID.

• Ports vmk NFS considerations when you move a host of distributed 1 switch to another

  Hi everyone, I wonder if you can help with the following...

  I currently have a number of ESX host that accompany the dvswitch0 for connectivity management and NFS.  VM networks has already been migrated to new dvswitch. The following assumptions are correct?

  I need to remove a vmnic from the current dVS, so that I can create a standard vswitch and migrate vmk0 (network management) to it before removing the host of dvswitch0?

  When I did it and I delete the host of dvSwitch0, I lose connectivity for my NFS vmk? Or will they continue to work as I have the info ip configured locally on the ESXi host? I've recreated the PG for NFS on the new dvswitch bearing the same name and config like dvswitch that I want to spend

  If the connection is lost, I guess I need to migrate a vswitch standard before removing the vDS, identical to my management network of my NFS vmk. And then migrate them all using the wizard when I add my host to the new dwswitch

  If the connectivity will not be lost, I guess when I add the new dvswitch host and migrate my vmk0, the vmk NFS will appear in the PG on the new DVS as my exchanges were confiigured with the same name?

  Is that correct the above?

  Thanks in advance

  
  

  If the connectivity will not be lost, I guess when I add the new dvswitch host and migrate my vmk0, the vmk NFS will appear in the PG on the new DVS as my exchanges were confiigured with the same name?

  As long as there is a valid vmnic attached to your destination vSwitch and a group of ports on the VLAN, the migration of your NFS vmk interface will be successful.

  I suggest doing this kind of work, while the host is in maintenance mode; There will be a small window of time during the migration where the host loses connectivity to the NFS data store.

• Dvvswitch script part 3 - adding of VMK Ports to a dVs - LucD

  I'm trying to use your functions to add ports vmk to an existing dVs

  My syntax is:

  $dvkernname = new-dvswvmKernel -esxname $vmhost.name -dvswname $dvs -dvpgname $nfspg -ipaddr $nfsip -ipnetmask $dvsMask
  

  I set these variables earlier in my script

  I have the following error:

  Get-View : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'VIObject'. The argument is nu
  ll or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the comm
  and again.
  At Functions\dvsw_functions.ps1:55 char:40
  +     $dvSwPg = $dvSw.Portgroup | %{Get-View <<<<  $_} | where {$_.Name -eq $dv
  PgName}
      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Get-View], ParameterBindingVal
     idationException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,VMware.VimAutom
     ation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView
  
  Exception calling "AddVirtualNic" with "2" argument(s): "A specified parameter
  was not correct.
  PortConnection.portgroupKey"
  At \Functions\dvsw_functions.ps1:71 char:29
  +             $hostNetSys.AddVirtualNic <<<< ($null, $nic)
      + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

  I see that when you have published the functions you have stated your variables within the function .ps1. I am confused on how to use it. Depending on what environment processes my script, my variables change before passed to your function.

  Thanks for the comments.

  Attached script revamped for my post in part 3. This is the Get-dvSwitch function that has changed.

  You can try these functions and see if it works for the creation of a console or a portgroup VMkernel on your Nexus dvSwitch?

  The code example in its use (line 96) should give you an idea on how to use these functions

• Port of heart beat Vmkernal of storage for table Equalogic PS

  Dell has just installed a new EQL PS SAN and configured for our 5 x ESXi hosts 5.0U1. Each host has 2 10 GB NIC have inaugurated a vswitch dedicated for iSCSi connections to the SAN. MPIO is via the driver of Dell MPIO add-on.

  They are configured so as to VMK 2 ports iSCSi1 ands iSCSi2 1:1 as usual. However, as Dell has left, I came across a Dell/EQL (TR1075-Configure-iSCSI-Connectivity-with-VMware-vSphere-5.pdf) white paper that says that a separate vmk port must be configured to maintain "pingability' of the iscsi ports during failure/failover. This port must have an ip address on the iSCSi subnet and 2 10GB network adapters must be active in the team but are not related to the iSCSi adapter. It should also be the port down vmk not.

  The following positions in various net forums seem to suggest this is very important: -.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1877959

  http://www.LinkedIn.com/groups/new-guidelines-VMware-iSCSI-65187.S.89647775

  http://sostech.WordPress.com/2012/01/10/iSCSI-multipath-for-EqualLogic-round-3/

  If it is there, it is easy to create the additional vmk but how I would make the lowest port without deleting existing ports and access of SAN interupting.

  Kind regards

  Gerry

  5.1 ESXi does not resolve the problem, then the kernel of Heartbeat of storage (SHB), is no longer necessary.

  However, with ESXi v5.0 you don't have to remove the two ports VMK and start from scratch.  You can unbind the VMK port below via the GUI ESX.  Then, change the network cards so that both are active.   Then create a NEW VMK port in this subnet that has bound to the iSCSI HBA to replace the port lowest VMK used for SHB.

• EtherChannel does not support on 400 7600 - SIP

  Hello

  I'm a very big dilemma. I have 1 Gbps connection to my ISP. I'm under BGP to establish connectivity with the provider PE.

  Just to inform you, I have redundant connections on the connection of 2 - Cisco 3750 (main & secondary link) next to service provider and there are 4 routers for 2 services (primary and secondary each for 2 services) now use on services - 1A applications increases and reaches 900 ~ 950 MB/s, is not on the impact of the services-2 I pushed the 2 services via secondary link traffic. I have attached ppt for some knowledge

  Until a few weeks back the use was about 750 in the direction of entry and 700 Mbps in the exit direction of the WAN port on the service routers 1, but now the use of entry began to reach 900 ~ 950 MB/s in the direction of entry.

  I have 400 7600 - SIP (void crack-5XGE-SPA) on the routers [services for Qos ] are related to the switches. I spoke with the service provider, and they said that they would consider more and while I thought to do the first aggregation of ports-2 between the provider of Service & 3750 switch device and an another 2-port aggregation between 3750 Switch & services-1 (Cisco7606) router.

  There is no problem to create aggregation Service Provider betn ports device & switch 3750. It does not go between 3750 & services-1 switch (Cisco7606) router according to Cisco aggregation port document being not supported on 7600-SIP 400.

  It takes time for the service provider to provide 10 port of concert. I WS-X 6548-GE-TX module Services-(Cisco7606) 1 router. So, I thought WS-X 6548-GE-TX router connection ports on the router with switch and create port channel between Them.But I wonder how would function QOS can be used.

  So I need a Council if WS - X 6548-GE-TX ports support QOS with Etherchannel.

  Your advice will be appreciated

  R.

  Valerie

  The 3750 is a layer 3 switch.  Could you change the design to allow links to layer 3 through him?

  What get a 10Gbe for the 3750 and your 7600 module (s)?

• Command chain vmkping all script and return results in a txt file

  Hi guys, hope you all are doing it very well?

  Does anyone know if there is a way I can put this together?

  What I'm trying to do here is to circumvent the tedious process of ping every IP configured for my target iSCSI through each VMK of each host.

  So basically I want some advice from you guys for what I can basically get this in a script.

  vmkping - I vmk1 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk2 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk3 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk4 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk5 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk6 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk7 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk8 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk9 10.0.0.10

  vmkping - I vmk1 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk2 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk3 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk4 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk5 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk6 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk7 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk8 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk9 10.0.0.11

  vmkping - I vmk1 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk2 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk3 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk4 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk5 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk6 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk7 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk8 10.0.0.12

  vmkping - I vmk9 10.0.0.12

  etc... etc...

  Do this on all hosts is to take more time than I'd like to take. Because we are busy of troubleshooting an issue on our switches where some of the ports VMK are unable to communicate to the target. Is there anyway that we can this script?

  Please guys, I'm desperate here.

  Kind regards

  Johan

  You can do it from a bash script.

  This is a working script that gets a list of all the vmkernel ports then each IP provided in a file list.txt on each vmkernel port pings. The results are printed to the screen but to get the results to just the output of the line pipe.

  Here is an example:

  "sh vmkping.sh > / tmp/vmkpingResults.log".

  #! / bin/bash

  # Name of the program: vmkpingall.sh

  # Store a file list.txt with each target IP storage on a separate line

  #---EXEMPLE list.txt-

  #172.16.191.50

  #172.16.192.50

  #-----------------------------

  #Print the date and host name

  Date

  host name

  #get a list of all the ports of vmk on the host

  for vmknum $ (esxcli network ip interface list | grep vmk | grep - v name :))

  do

  White space #Trim

  vmkCompare = "${vmknum # * ()}" "

  #Trim trailing whitespace

  vmkCompare = "${vmkCompare % * ()}" "

  # Exclude vmk0, because we do not use our management traffic vmotion vmkernel port so pings are supposed to do not on vmk0

  If ["$vmkCompare"! = "vmk0"]; then

  Cat /path-to-script/list.txt |  while reading output

  do

  #use vmkping port command selected vmk '-I ' ping target IP addresses

  vmkping - I "$vmknum" - ch. 1 "$output" >/dev/null

  If [$?-eq 0]; then

  echo 'node $output's place on $vmknum

  on the other

  echo "$output node is down on $vmknum.

  FI

  fact

  FI

  fact

• Essentials Plus temporary installation

  I currently have two servers Dell PowerEdge T110 with hypervisor ESXi6 configuration.  Each server has 16 GB of RAM and the local drives of 1 TB.  My plan is to replace these servers with R630 servers with 24 GB of RAM, but that occur for 3 months another funding arrives.  I have already received our Essentials Plus package and want to create on the existing servers so that we can 'play' with it and get used to the system.

  I know the recommended minimum requirements, but think I might stretch what is a little until the upgrade servers arrive for my purpose.  So, my thought is this:

  update my hypervisor from ESXi6 to ESXi6 with the Essentials Plus licensing servers

  Installing vCenter with features incorporated in the form of an appliance

  I only have 2 network adapters on each server.  Then, I plan on the uplink connection as follows:

  1 uplink - management and Vmotion

  1 uplink - VM

  I'll keep the local disks for storage BUT when arrive upgrade servers I plan on converting these T110 servers NAS servers.  The R640s will be delivered with 4 network cards so I should be in good shape

  I think it will work temporarily for purposes can I training?  Any advice?

  Nothing inherently wrong with that. I think you'd be better of just standing back a new server vcenter for your new hosts and placing them in together and then dismantle this environment later. But even once, there is nothing wrong with what you want to do and then set up the policy of clustering and failover for ports VMK 1 active and 1 sleep just so you have a redundancy in all areas other than the fact that I place two network cards on a single vSwitch. If you use only local storage, however, vMotion is irrelevant. You will lose your mind in waiting for the virtual machines to move through a unique NETWORK adapter without shared storage.

• Can I use VDS with LACP to reduce on group SAN iSCSI connections?

  I'm trying to reduce the number of iSCSI connections to my EqualLogic storage group. I currently use a standard vSwitch with two ports vmk by server for SAN. Can I use a single vmk with VDS/LACP to reduce my by half by server iSCSI connections and still maintains band bandwidth/redundancy?

  I'm quite confident, it will work, but hoped for validation. Please correct me if I'm totally turned off, or if it would be not supported.

  My volumes cover several physical devices (20 paths for 7 volumes by iSCSI adapter). Can I assume that with load balancing on an OFFSET of the source and destination hash value, I would get at least some balancing between adapters?

  If you have several points of termination targets L2 - 4, Yes. For example an IP address, MAC address, unique ports or. Paths, volumes and devices are not relevant to the LACP.

  If I don't choose a LAG, I can't visualize how it would reduce my iSCSI for my storage pool connections. I'm setting targets on my Broadcom cards, the vmk connects through these cards. Is the logic that is smart enough to only connect the active paths on an adapter or another in an OFFSET? I do know that I have make sense more that I might have to play with a SHIFT on a host isolated for a bit and see exactly how it will behave.

  The adapters are more exposed. The LAG is a logical interface. Traffic can be sent or received through any physical adapter in the GAL.

  Note: I would not use an OFFSET for iSCSI on a vSphere host traffic: seriously, Stop Using Port channels for vSphere storage traffic. Wahl network

• VDS - a scholarly Discussion health check

  OK, so that through all the documents that I can find except my next steps in opening a packet sniffer, I try to get a real deep dive on how the vDS health check works.  Thus, the documentation says he uses a Layer2 echo protocol, which is an ICMP ping, to check the configuration of VLANS.  So, if this is the case, how do this on VM networks without IP addresses and ports VMK?  Did he get by chance from a Pool of IP assigned, which means that a Pool of IP is necessary?  Also, since it checks only the next hop, in pens of blade, it actually help since the next leap will be the Virtual Connect (in the land of HP)?

  I understand Layer2 ping that the ping of the arp using mac addresses and not ip addresses.

  He must provide between rising Paul on L2, it should be independent on HP virtualconnect VEPA or cisco VN - TAG Ethernet enhancements.

• 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.

• Unable to see the iSCSI target

  Hello

  I just configured an Openfiler area supposed to be some storage additional iSCSI for backup of the virtual computer.

  The target seems to be configured fine that I am able to connect to storage successfully from a machine of W2K3.

  However when I try a scan of the host ESX 3.02 they fail to find the storage.

  I entered the details contained in the dynamic discovery, the service console is in the same subnet and I opened the necessary firewall port.

  Our main storage is a SAN DS3400 of fiber and they use LUNS 0 & 1

  When I try to map a LUN to the target in Openfiler he tries to use LUN 0, this could be the cause, or am I missing something else?

  Any help would be appreciated

  What you added is good news: vSwitch0 1) speaks through a NIC team, and 2) vSwitch0 only SC and VMotion only: you can go ahead, put your Openfiler box on your network admin/VMotion. If your vmkping did not before, I guess it's because the VMotion IP subnet field is different from the ordinary SC subnet IP field, right? If so, adds an extra port SC vSwitch0 in VMotion, to get the subnet of the ping responses and vmkping in the table. Otherwise, if the VMotion network, it's the same as SC network, so I don't understand why your old vmkpings didn't work. Well... This solution is simple, but what I don't like in it, it's that time VMotion traffic and iSCSI will use the same physical link because you don't have a single vmkernel port, that is too bad, when you have 2 physical links. You would think something even more intelligent. The idea would be to force the VMotion traffic to run priority through a vmnic and iSCSI traffic running through the other, each vmnic being the road to recovery on the other.

  To achieve this, at first glance, I would say that should you be the Openfiler box on a subnet dedicated Y. Then, on vSwitch0, create 1 SC port and port 1 vmkernel having both a subnet address Y. Then play with team vSwitch0 NIC settings, the idea would be to configure ports VMK and SC on the subnet Y with an explicit failover of vmnic0 command then vmnic1, and then configure the port VMotion and the SC current port with also an explicit failover command, but with an order of vmnic1 then vmnic0 (i.e., the opposite direction). In this way, iSCSI through vmnic0, VMotion, through vmnic1, and even if there is some VMotion overnight, everyone will not work correctly. And if a vmnic fails, it will suffer a degraded mode, both using the same link, but it will be temporary... The limitation of this solution will potentially come from your physical network architecture: your physical switches will allow all these subnets routed properly through these 2 vmnic? May be that VLAN would help...

  Let me know how it goes!

  Kind regards

  Pascal.

• QOS port ranges

  I want to give priority to League of Legends, a game that uses the ports of between 5000-5500. Does the WRT54GL section "Demand priority" to port ranges. If Yes, I put the range in properly.

  You can't port ranges for this type of QoS. Do priority or priority of Ethernet Device instead. The last Routers Wifi Smart of Linksys has for a prioritization of media feature which includes options to set the priority for online games. There same League of Legends as one of the games on the list by default, so that you can choose to set the priority.

• How to change IP address for vmk ports on vDS?

  Hello

  I can't find a place to change the IP address for vmk ports vDS, if anyone could share some lights?

  

  Thank you very much!

  This is the configuration of the host. From the vSphere Client:

  1. Choose inventory hosts and Clusters
  2. Click on the host whose IP address you want to change
  3. Go to the Configuration tab
  4. Select the network from the menu on the left
  5. Select vSphere Distributed Switch
  6. Click on 'Manage e-cards' above the VDS you want to change

  Example: