Hrm, I am using a 2824 on a pair of DL380 G5's running ESXi, both also have Dual Port Intel gig nic teamed back to the HP... I was more curious about literal details: VMKernel Port, what switch is in it, I guess the same switch the two vm's are in as you only use one nic? Can you confirm all of this config? What are the vswitch, port group, and port options (that I assume the VMKernel is plugged into)?
Anyway, it sounds more like one of these Sidewinders is causeing the issue, it's where I would look. jlc -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Semi OT: ESXi in a DMZ The firewall is a pair of Sidewinders in HA config, talking to an HP 2824 switch on each of the subnets - DMZ and internal. The ESXi box has a single NIC for both the VMs and management. No teaming. It's a Dell 1950, but I could never get the second NIC to respond. I'm running two smallish Win2k3 VMs. As I said, port 3389 is open, and I can leave up an RDP session to either of the Win2k3 VMs all day long with no issues. Kurt On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 18:45, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: > If it runs for some time, it works... > A netstat off my manglement box shows only 443 to one of my esxi servers. > Given your setup, I am pretty sure you have something not right. Describe > your network config in detail, are you teaming nics from the esxi to a switch > for example. > > jlc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:38 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Semi OT: ESXi in a DMZ > > Quite helpful that. > > However, I suspect it's incomplete. > > Even this document - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-2500 - > hasn't helped. > > Dang it. > > I'll keep fiddling. > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 16:57, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://communities.vmware.com/message/624990 >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:36 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Semi OT: ESXi in a DMZ >> >> Anyone doing this? Or even ESX in a DMZ? >> >> I've got a new ESXi box in a DMZ that is working fine, and I have port >> 3389 open so that I can RDP to the servers that are hosted on it, but I >> can't make the VI client keep a connection live longer than about two >> minutes. >> >> I connect great with the VI Client, and can start lots of things, but >> after two minutes it just dies. I've opened port 443, but it must need >> something else, and I can't figure out what it might be. >> >> I've tried running Wireshark on my desktop to see what the packets look >> like, but can't make heads or tails of it because of the noise from the >> firewall rewriting checksums and other bizarreness. >> >> Anyone have any hints on this? >> >> Kurt >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise��������~ >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterpris�������� ~ >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/�� ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ��~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
