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Hello,

 

I installed a VMWare Hypervisor 5.5 server and put 2 virtual machines on it.

 

The physical server has 2 NICs and connected to the LAN.

 

When I go to the virtual machine performance tab and look at the network data I see that most traffic is going over 1 vmnic.

The stats of the other NIC are most of the time plain 0 values.

 

see attachment...

 

Isn't this supposed to be spread over vmnic0 & vmnic1 ?

 

The vSwitch has loadbalancing on, if I turn loadbalancing on for the VMNetwork it doesn't seem to change much either.

 

When I add another virtual NIC and leave it unteamed I get the same result.

Will this only work when teaming 2 virtual NICs in the virtual machine or will it only use the second NIC when it reaches almost full load?

The problem is that I have issues with teaming the microsoft way, the server becomes unreachable for some reason (previous HP soft messed up something?)

 

I'm using the VMXNET3 NICs.


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