No - the IP addresses are all set static, in the same subnet. Kurt
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:41 PM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you notice if those are getting the Microsoft auto configuration ip > addresses of 169... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host > > All, > > My search-fu is failing, so I turn to you for help... > > I have a small ESXi 5.5 host, about to go into production. > > The three VMs (2008R2 for all of them, a DC, Exchange 2010 and a PRTG > box) on it can communicate with machines not on the ESXi host - ping, RDP, > etc. - and vice versa. No problems. > > However, the three VMs on this host cannot talk with each other. No ping, no > RDP. When pinging from one of the VMs to another, I get a mix of unreachables > from the VMs own address and straight timeouts. > > There is only one vSwitch, which has two NICs bound to it, and the vswitch is > set up to route based on IP hash. The physical switch to which they are > connect (and this shouldn't matter, but...) is an HP 2510G-48, and the ports > for the host are in a simple trunk - no LACP. > > I've turned off the Domain profile of the firewall on one of the machine, > which seems to make no difference. > > I've examined the VMware host security settings to no avail. I've turned off > the Windows firewall. > > I've got 3 ESXi hosts in a vSphere Standard cluster that doesn't have this > problem. > > Kurt > > > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members > Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the > individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of > the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this > message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, > dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly > prohibited. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email.
