Both ports in the trunk on the switch show as up. Looks good there. Kurt
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Damien Solodow <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. > Does the switch show the trunk group as up? > > DAMIEN SOLODOW > Systems Engineer > 317.447.6033 (office) > 317.447.6014 (fax) > HARRISON COLLEGE > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host > > Not sure what you mean by that. The Virtual Machine Port Group is set in the > same VLAN as the Management Port Group, which is the VLAN to which the ports > on the physical switch are tagged. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Damien Solodow <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Is the vSwitch tagging? >> >> DAMIEN SOLODOW >> Systems Engineer >> 317.447.6033 (office) >> 317.447.6014 (fax) >> HARRISON COLLEGE >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:44 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host >> >> Sorry, forgot to add - only one VLAN on this switch, and the physical switch >> ports are tagged to this VLAN, and of course all of the VMs are on this >> VLAN, and are using the VMX NET 3 NIC. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > >
