VMotion and grouping of NETWORK cards to a single virtual machine?

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• Grouping of NETWORK cards

  Hello

  I am new to virtualization and have a basic question about the collection of NETWORK adapters. I have a host with a NETWORK card with 2 ports (vmnic0 and vmnic1). I have a network cable connected to vmnic0 and vmnic1 is open without any network connection to the outside world. Can I use grouping of NETWORK cards in this case? Or both network adapters must be connected to the network for NIC teaming to work?

  You can certainly configure everything as if the two vmnic was active. However, with a single uplink connected to a physical switch, it may not make much sense.

  André

• vSphere replication - grouping of NETWORK cards

  We have a large virtual machine (60 to VMDK) we need to replicate to a second host.  We are currently receiving about 100 MB/s and it seems we're reached the limit of 1 GB.  I want to increase the bandwidth available for this large replication work by aggregating traffic through several nic is it possible?  If so, how?

  I tried the following approach, thinking that these operations can be based on the same transfer mechanism, but it has not made a difference.

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

  The KB points it is grouping of network cards that will help when you lost the active NIC then stand by will pass your tgraffic.

  Now coming to your scenario, you need to configure the user profile of the NIOC here you have to devote all the speed of the network to this replication job card. You cannot aggregate multiple Nic for reaching the combined capacity. We have a concept called LAG and LACP. but it will also give the speed that is independent to the different traffic

• Grouping of NETWORK cards causing the ESXi to retransmit ethernet frames received.

  I had an HP Proliant DL380 G5 ESXi 5.1.0 connected to a Cisco 3750 Switch stack.

  All by performing a tcpdump on a host without a report, I discovered that he was under the bombardment with ethernet frames for the MAC address of a computer virtual located on a host across the data center. After a few brief troubleshooting, I discovered that I was able to stop those erroneous frames by disabling NETWORK adapters on my VMWare host group.
  
  I believe that in my situation when ESXi is configured to use two network cards to all frames received on vmnic0 and retransmits them on vmnic1 and vice-vesa. I experienced these symptoms when ESXi is configured for failover with an active adapter and adapter mode standby and I also experienced the same symptoms in the following load balancing configuration.
  

  
  

  Symptoms: some time after activating the load balancing, all frames Ethernet for the MAC address of a virtual computer on the affected host are broadcast on each switch port in the entire data center.
  
  Steps to reproduce:
  (1) implementation below configuration.
  (2) unplug the ethernet cable connecting vmnic1 and switch1 port gi2/0/4
  (3) run the host 1.1.1.1 EI - n - q tcpdump on any machine physics linux in the data center (don't even have to be connected directly to 1).
  Confirm there is no packet seen with the IP address of 1.1.1.1 destination
  (4) plug the cable between vmnic1 and switch1 gi2/0/4 port ethernet
  (5) wait 60 to 120 seconds
  (6) watch a burst of frames ethernet with the destination MAC address of the VM (which owns 1.1.1.1) in the output of tcpdump

  Cisco Configuration:

  hostname switch1
  !
  src-dst-ip port-channel load-balance

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/4

  Description vmnic0.host0 (NIC 1)

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  channel-group mode 4 on

  spanning tree portfast trunk

  end

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet2/0/4

  Description vmnic1.host0 (NIC 2)

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  channel-group mode 4 on

  spanning tree portfast trunk

  end

  !

  Interface Port-Channel 4

  Host0 description

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  spanning tree portfast trunk

  end

  
  Configuration of ESXi
  vSwitch0

  Grouping of NETWORK cards / Load Balancing: route based on IP Hash
  Grouping of NETWORK cards / failover detection network: link status only
  Grouping of NETWORK cards / notify switches: Yes
  NIC Teaming / relief: Yes
  Grouping of NETWORK cards / adapters active: vmnic0, vmnic1
  NIC Teaming / standby adapters: nothingness
  NIC adapters grouping / unused: nothingness
  Security / Promiscious Mode: reject

  Security / MAC address changes: accept
  Security / forged passes: accept

  
  #1 Virtual Machine port group
  Network label: 'Public '.

  VLAN: 27
  Grouping of NETWORK cards: all unchecked (inherited)

  #2 Virtual Machine port group
  Network label: "trunk".
  VLAN: 4095
  Grouping of NETWORK cards: all unchecked (inherited)

  VM kernel Port #1
  Network label: 'management '.
  VLAN: 2

  Grouping of NETWORK cards: all unchecked (inherited)

  VM #1
  

  OS: Windows Server 2003
  NIC 1 / adapter: Flexible
  NIC 1 / network Label: 'Public '.

  IP address: 1.1.1.1/24

  I apologize for the delay in my response.

  Unplug physically 2 cable NETWORK card on the host and configuration mirrored port on the switchport to 1 NETWORK adapter of the host, I have been able to confirm that the host VMWare issues guides on NIC1 with a destination MAC address of one of its own VM.

  After carefully reviewing the captured data, I noticed that the destination frames wrong "02:bf:cb:50:a2:76" MAC address actually belonged to "Local Area Connection 1' one of my Windows 2003 Server WHAT VM installed on the suspected host.

  Dig a little deeper, I discovered that this virtual NETWORK card is presented to the operating system as
  Name: Local 1 network connection
  "Type: VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet adapt."
  MAC: 02-BF-CB-50-A2-76

  But the configuration of the virtual machine in vCentre is
  Name: Network adapter 1
  Type: Flexible
  MAC: 00: 0C: 29:fa:e8:83

  Note the different MAC addresses.

  Digging a little further I discovered that Windows 2003 server has configured on "Local 1 network connection" network load balancing and NLB is the cause of the altered MAC address.

  Rather than to investigate further I have just placed a load balancer linux before the server windows 2003 cluster and that you turn off NLB.

  But I suspect that there is still a fundamental problem in the Virtual Switch VMware with how he learns the MAC addresses of the virtual machine is using flexible vNIC. In particular, with a virtual machine that uses a form to override the MAC address such as that used by NLB.

• iDRAC 7 express, grouping of network cards

  Hello

  I can't access iDRAC when the grouping of NETWORK cards is configured. Is it according to the design guidelines? There is no work around for this?

  #idrac7express #NICteaming  

  Hello.

  Yes, it's normal. IDRAC Express does NOT use a NETWORK card dedicated for remote access, but rather use a LAN on motherboard (LOM) as a shared port. Now, once you have Teaming on the LOM ports, then the iDRAC Express cannot share all the ports with the team. The solution is to upgrade to iDRAC Enterprise that uses another port dedicated team card NETWORK for management traffic. See page 4 of the link: downloads.dell.com/.../integrated-dell-remote-access-cntrllr-7-v1.30.30_Setup%20Guide_en-us.pdf;. l = en & cs = 555 & s = biz

• VMware networking help - network bridge / to access the virtual machines form other pc

  I have a computer 'server' that had 4 VM launched on it.

  I need to connect to these virtual machines, all of which have their own IP addresses. I can ping the server or the host of a remote computer, but must be able to communicate with the virtual machines in the remote/client computerss.

  Can anyone offer insight?  I tried to set up an automatic bypass at one of the virtual machines

  Any thoughts?

  Sorry, I'm not sure I can follow you. In any case, what you're trying to do is to configure adaper network of the virtual machine as "Bridged" within the parameters of the virtual machine and then change network card settings in as guest OS:

  IP address: 192.168.1.21 (where 21 must be an unused IP address currently)
  Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  Def gateway: 192.168.1.1

  Preferred DNS server: 192.168.1.1

  André

• VMware Fusion 6 Professional - where is the possibility of locking VMware using a single virtual machine and do not allow the creation of new virtual machines?

  This is a quote from the VMware Fusion Professional 6 product page:

  VMware Fusion 6 Professional comes with IT administration tools to help you deploy VMware Fusion using Apple or a management solution third Mac as of JAMF's Casper Suite. Further reduce the cost of support of Windows desktop using the mode of single virtual machine that limits user access to the library of the Virtual Machine, the ability to create virtual machines or migrate PCs and reduces the options of the menu.

  Where can I find these IT administration tools?  I want to block my VMware users to a single virtual machine so that they can not blow by creating new virtual machines, etc.

  How can I do this?

  Thank you!

  Glitch004,

  You could follow the steps to activate the single mode of VM:

  1. turn power off all running VMS and out the merger.

  2. Add the following line to/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion / config

  installerDefaults.simplifiedUI = 'TRUE '.

  3 restart merger and you will find:

  . VM library is hide in the VM menu.

  . only one virtual machine can be used, while click second VM Fusion of the reports ' Unable to open document. "

  Best regards

  Shanghai

• Performance metric power group do not show anything on the virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a small question about the metrics of power Group found on the side of the virtual machine in the charts of perf ahead. It shows only 0 for usage.

  If I'm in the same group of metric on the host, it shows the values.

  do you know why it does not show anything on the virtual machine. is a group of metric that is not usable for virtual machines?

  Thank you very much

  Eric

  You have a support contract in place? Otherwise, I can connect this with them for an official answer... If that helps?

• Grouping of network cards on the PowerEdge R320 and R720 servers

  Hello

  I have several R320 servers with quad port NIC broadcom. I would like to configure the collection of NETWORK adapters on the Server 2008 R2, but I couldn't find a download on the website of Dell application, could someone ' a please point me in the right direction.

  I also have a Dell server with Vmware Esxi 5.1 R720, is it possible to configure NETWORK cards on this grouping?

  Thank you

  Dan

  Guys,

  Is the possible consolidation of NETWORK cards? I would have thought that it is something that would be fairly simple with the right driver.

• Failed to create FT logging with grouping of NETWORK cards

  I use vSphere vCenter 5.1 and 5.1.

  I create a port group of kernel VM on a new vSwitch, assign two NICs used on my ESX Server and logging FT. I have then add a second port VM kernel group to the two network cards and also assign FT logging. When I do this FT Logging the first port of kernel VM group is disabled. If I then manually enable FT gones then a second by logging on the first group of ports of kernel VM mode off.

  The same thing happens when I create 2 vSwitches, assign 1 NIC to each of them and assign the FT logging.

  I wanted to create my FT Logging predisposees in this way to match what I've done with vMotion and VM Network.

  I do something wrong or you can have a group of ports per server for recording of FT? Please notify.

  Thank you

  Multi-NIC VMotion is a new feature in vSphere 5.0. Multi-NIC FT has not yet been introduced. You mentioned trade Multi-NIC VM, but it is not possible either. While you can have two interchanges to connect to the same VLAN they must have unique names and a VM NIC may connect only to a unique name.

  What advantage do you hope to achieve with Multi - NIC FT? If the goal is more throughput 10G is the only option currently. If the lens is better traffic load balancing so that you could watch LACP on the vDS.

• Tests... Grouping of NETWORK cards - based IP Hash

  Hello!

  I am configuring the NETWORK cards on my vSwitch grouping feature. I configured several ports in two physical switches (two HP Procurve 2810) (HP 2810 switches obtained haven´t etherchannel) LACP mode available. Right now, everything is Ok.

  So my question is: How can I test if the IP hash function works well, it is, connecting the same virtual machine with the help of several physical NIC according to computers ask server information?

  I thought about using "sniffer" or something like that. More ideas?

  PS: I tried to configure the collection of NETWORK adapters - Hash IP without configuration LACP in my physical switch and I noticed haven´t alarms or internal errors. May I take it that it works well?

  Thanks for all!

  With ESXTOP command you can see network load on each physical network adapter. Press N to see details on the network.

  I'm not familiar with the switches HP, but (like Cisco), it should be possible to see the counters on LACP or detailed statistics on your switch.

  If you do not use load balancing on your physical switch, all incoming traffic from the network of your virtual machine can come on one single network card.

• Lab Manager V3 and a second NETWORK card

  Hello everyone. I have a question I hope you can help me with. In Lab Manager V2.5, we were having a problem with fencing. Our fencing required 5 IPs and our customer wants about 100 fences. As we seek to do not use more than 2 C all classes of IP addresses, we hoped an alternative solution.

  Our current idea is to try to use the second NETWORK card on a separate internal switch. This option would use the internal IP for 4 IP addresses and an external IP address. Although this plan seems feasible in theory, the V2.5 Lab Manager did not work to achieve this end. Thus, we are now experiencing V3. Does anyone know if this plan of attack is feasible? If so, what measures are necessary to achieve this goal? The second NETWORK card will be detected automatically by the Lab Manager, or is there a configuration I do not see any there to achieve?

  In short, I need to know if a second NETWORK adapter is feasible with V3 before submitting a request for a second switch. Please let me know if anyone has any info on this subject. Thank you kindly.

  LM 3.0 allows to use up to 4 network LM by VM Interfaces.  A Network Interface is the combination of the virtual NETWORK card and a physical interface LM LM 3.0, or virtual network.  Networking has been considerably strengthened LM 2.5 days.  Instead of a comprehensive physical network, you can have several (limit)? Physical networks that map to vSwitches in your vCenter/ESX host environment.  The Act of creating a physical network of LM 3.0 creates a group of ports on the vSwitch that you you mapped physical network LM.  Each physical network can accommodate up to worth (1024) 4 c of static IP addresses.  If you want that your different physical networks LM using different physical network interface cards on the ESX host, map to different vCenter/ESX vSwitches.

  Fencing is also managed a little more dynamically without the limitations in number of closed configs that were in previous versions.  All virtual machines in a fenced config needs to be hosted on the same ESX host however.

  Oh, virtual networks are a separate issue, which allow the installation of a local network visible only to virtual machines in a configuration.

  I hope this helps.

  Don't forget if the answers help you, award points

• Error x 40 and 1802: unauthorized network card is plugged

  Hello
  I have a 40 X with its original wifi card. After some bios upgrade, this startup error shown:
  1802: unauthorized network card is plugged - power off and remove the miniPCI network card.

  How can I solve this problem? Perhaps without downgrading the BIOS?

  Thank you very much
  Oliver

  I solved the problem bu decommissioning to the newest BIOS that support my CPU, i.e. without downgrading to the original BIOS

• Grouping of NETWORK cards reverse the policy

  When I apply a profile esxi 5.0 to 5.1 host, I got the following configuration message. any ideas?

  Hello

  This is mentioned in the 5.1 version of vSphere notes:

  Compliance policy network outages continue to host profiles created from applied guests 5.1 ESXi ESXi 4.1 or ESXi 4.0 hosts
  After you apply a profile created from an ESXi 4.1 or ESXi 4.0 host host to a 5.1, the failures of compliance profile next host ESXi host could continue:

  For the network policy for the Group [NAME of GROUP of PORT] port spec.policy.nicTeaming.failureCriteria property does not match
  For the network policy for the Group [NAME of GROUP of PORT] port spec.policy.nicTeaming.reversePolicy property does not match

  
  

  Network settings above are not supported on ESXi 5.1 hosts and are configured is more when you apply a host profile with these settings.

  Solution: Two options are available:

  • After applying host initially created from an ESXi 4.1 host to a host profile ESXi 5.1, create a new profile of the host from the host ESXi 5.1 and which attach to this 5.1 ESXi host and other affected 5.1 ESXi hosts.
  • Change the policy of grouping of NETWORK adapters in the profile of the host to the option user must explicitly choose political instead of the strategy of grouping NIC specified.

  Now I know IVotre profiles are at the origin of 5.0 but the thought to mention it anyway

• Configuration of VLAN with grouping of NETWORK cards.

  I have a Dell Poweredge server here at work with 2 NIC cards on it.  I have the ESXi hypervisor installed and created virtual machines. I want to use two network cards that the lables vmnic0 and vmnic1 VMware.  I would like to share the same subnet.  See the attached screenshot.  vmnic0 works very well and it is connected to vswitch0.  My management network uses this same vmnic0.  I guess I have to turn on VLAN somehow.  Do I need to do to the ESXi Server Console?  Goal is to be able to put a box until the server ESXi Dell itself and connect a crossover cable and have an IP address to be able to get leased to it in the same subnet, connected on the vmnic1. Thank you

  The problem here is that there is a requirement of 3rd communication. The esx server you are converting to must be contacted as well.  If you connect your machine of transformation of the physical machine, you can convert local files, which should be no problem.  But, you don't want to keep these files locally on the server of conversion, you are trying to convert it to ESX, correct?  It's the difference between your previous method and your current attempt.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert