Can you post the configs for the uplink ports and the port channel? On Apr 3, 2014 7:47 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: It's an HP switch, not Cisco.
Kurt On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. > What IOS do you have on your switch? > I am on a Cisco 3580 with the latest IOS build as of June last year. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 7:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host > > au-sw-03(config)# no gratuitous arp > Invalid input: gratuitous > > Kurt > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:08 PM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's a command. >> No gratuitous arp from config t. >> It is on by default. >> It helped a couple server but I still have issues. >> ESXi's knowledgebase is full of these intermittent IPstack issues that they >> are blaming on the OS and Physical switches. Kind of curious that the same >> physical switch was used in my realtime lab and never had these issues but >> now that it is backbone to the ESXi servers it is the problem.... >> Lol >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 6:58 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host >> >> I'm not finding any settings on the switch to manipulate gratuitous arp. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:29 PM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On your switch configs did you set gratuitous arps to no? >>> Suggested by ESX support and knowledgebase. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Cook >>> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 5:17 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host >>> >>> Well we do it for our SAN traffic, no reason it wouldn't work on guests. >>> >>> John W. Cook >>> Director of Network Operations >>> Partnership For Strong Families >>> 5950 NW 1st Place >>> Gainesville, Fl 32607 >>> Office (352) 244-1610 >>> Cell (352) 215-6944 >>> >>> MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, >>> CompTIA A+, N+, Security + >>> VSP4, VTSP4 >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >>> Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:59 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host >>> >>> Which would mean multihoming the VMs, correct? I don't think that's the >>> right approach here... >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:50 PM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Add another virtual switch with a private range for communication between >>>> servers? >>>> >>>> John W. Cook >>>> Director of Network Operations >>>> Partnership For Strong Families >>>> 5950 NW 1st Place >>>> Gainesville, Fl 32607 >>>> Office (352) 244-1610 >>>> Cell (352) 215-6944 >>>> >>>> MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, >>>> CompTIA A+, N+, Security + >>>> VSP4, VTSP4 >>>> >>>> -----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. 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