We the same problem with our 2008 servers. There is a MS fix/patch that sometimes fixes the nic. Else we just disable and reable the nic. We use the vmx3net nic and vmtools are not always up-to-date. It is very hard for us to get down time just to update vmtools.
Todd Lemmiksoo On Jun 11, 2015 1:00 PM, "Jack Kramer" <[email protected]> wrote: > What vNICs are you using? (E10000 or vmxnet3?) Tools up to date? vSwitch > settings? (Disabling MAC changes, promiscuous mode, etc?) > > On Jun 11, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Robb Whiting <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I have an annoying problem that’s been vexing us for months now. > > All our servers are virtualized with static IPs running on VMware > hypervisors. > > The servers that have connections to more than 1 ip sometimes drop their > connection. > > Other machines connected to the same network don’t lose their connection > so I don’t think it’s the link between the hypervisor and the switch. It > appears to be a windows problem. > > Anyone else have servers running Windows 2k12 R2 that are connected to > multiple networks that somehow lose connection randomly from time to time. > > If we disable and reenable the NIC then they come back up but they really > shouldn’t go down at all. > > Ideas? > > -Robb > > >
