Re: vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 free - Network Problems - DELL R420
I doubt there is a driver problem, not at this extent anywayBoth Intel E1000E and VMXNET3 are supported adapters for all these OS:es so i dont think shifting to VNXNET3 would solve anything, unless the...
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I have seen driver corruption before, with the VMXNET3 drivers.All servers responded to ping, even very large packages, no package loss.But services like Active Directory, DNS, Local logon was a mess....
View ArticleRe: Confirm Microsoft Server licensing in clusters
Hello, and thanks for all the replies. In this scenario money wise going datacenter licenses would definitively make sense. I guess the question is, are you allowed to split things up into HA...
View ArticleRe: Confirm Microsoft Server licensing in clusters
I don't know with which licensing you operate assuming it is Server 2012 licensing model which is completely different from previous on 2008 Servers... First Datacenter license is only worth if your...
View ArticleRe: Confirm Microsoft Server licensing in clusters
In this scenario: 8 Physical Servers running 10 VMs. I am confused as to why we need 5 licenses/hosts? First step is calculate planned number of maximum VMs running on single host at any point of time....
View ArticleRe: Confirm Microsoft Server licensing in clusters
Ms licenses works this way. 1 license per server, it dosent matter if its a virtual or physical servers, however some limitations apply on virtual servers Limitations.* Without SA contract on each...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Hi MartynThomas,Could you check is Jambo Frame enabled on the virtual machine on the problem host?I cannot re-produce the issue by beta driver, but I see some error:2015-01-28T06:35:00.490Z...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
I don't have jumbo frames enabled within any VMs, nor do I have jumbo frames enabled on any of my 4500x switches, VMNICs or dvswitches.
View ArticleESXI 5.5 and Intel I217V/LM NIC ( no network adapter )
Hi All , I have a problem to add network driver to esxi , my system Spec below and version driver that you added System , Lenovo ThinkCentre E93 With Intel I217V/LM Network interface card and...
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Teamed LAN cards not load balancing ESXi/hp Proliant Gen8/Vsphere 5.5
(hp Proliant Gen 8 ML350p server running ESXi/VSphere 5.5 Free)I have teamed 2 physical adapters (Broadcom NetXtreme) in a virtual switch which connects to a single VM.The adapters are both 'active'...
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I guess you only have traffic to one endpoint? In that case all traffic will go in one specific way, to get benefit by load balancing you need traffic between different endpoints. // Linjo
View ArticleRe: Teamed LAN cards not load balancing ESXi/hp Proliant Gen8/Vsphere 5.5
What is meant by endpoints please?We have around 6 PCs accessing this VM concurrently, so I was hoping traffic from these devices would be balanced across the two physical NICs.
View ArticleRe: Teamed LAN cards not load balancing ESXi/hp Proliant Gen8/Vsphere 5.5
With the default load policy (as shown in the screenshot) the VM will be assigned to a single physical uplink when it is powered on (Round-Robin). If you want to distribute traffic across both uplinks...
View ArticleRe: Confirm Microsoft Server licensing in clusters
Thanks for all the replies. So it looks like i can split things into Clusters to save on licensing, now i just have to see if it makes sense to do so. I will take your suggestion and talk to...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
HP have suggested I try driver version 10.2.445.0 from the Emulex site, needless to say shortly after installation I encountered the usual host isolation issue, albeit a very slightly different error:...
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Re: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Thanks, I've dropped you a mail with my contact details Cheers, Martyn
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Re: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Just pushed the latest Emulex firmware (10.2.470.14) to one of my test hosts and within about 15 mins it's failed again. This isn't looking promising!
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Re: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Just to keep everyone else in the loop, I've installed and tested the development driver (10.2.261.6251) and the host has remained stable so far. However I am seeing the following logged in the...
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