Networking

Host not Ready Error When Installing NSX Agents

Management summary: Make sure your NSX Controller is connected a distributed vSwitch instead of the standard vSwitch During the install process...
frankdenneman
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How to setup Multi-NIC vMotion on a distributed vSwitch

This article provides you an overview of the steps required to setup a Multi-NIC vMotion configuration on an existing distributed Switch...
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Direct IP-storage and using NetIOC User-defined network resource pools for QoS

Some customers use iSCSI initiators inside the Guest OS to connect directly to a datastore on the array or using an...
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IP-Hash versus LBT

vSwitch configuration and load-balancing policy selection are major parts of a virtual infrastructure design. Selecting a load-balancing policy can have impact...
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vSwitch Failback and High Availability

One setting most admins get caught off-guard is vSwitch Failback setting in combination with HA. If the management network vSwitch is...
frankdenneman
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Load Based Teaming

In vSphere 4.1 a new network Load Based Teaming (LBT) algorithm is available on the distributed virtual switch dvPort groups. The...
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Removing orphaned Nexus DVS

During the test of the Cisco Nexus 1000V the customer deleted the VSM first without removing the DVS using commands from...
frankdenneman
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NFS and IP-HASH loadbalancing

My background is Fibre Channel and beginning 2009 I implemented a large iSCSI environment. The “other” storage protocol supported by VMware,...
frankdenneman
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Flex10 update

In my first post I had a question about the path data travels when sent to a “standby” virtual connect module....
frankdenneman
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