I have been asked to provide the logs from the virtual switches on one of my ESX 3.5 hosts. I am not aware of the existence of any such logs. Can anyone confirm this or set me straight?
Thanks! _____________________________________________________________________ James Wood | Systems Administrator | Arizona Department of Transportation
I've never seen a transactional log that outlines connections built/torn-down within ESX. It might be best to sniff the network traffic using an analyzer or something like WireShark.
I do not know the existence of a log for the vswitches - As gary indicated perhaps some sort of network sniffer to monitor traffic - what do the logs on trhe FTP server say? The other thing you might monitor is the network traffic - I am wondering if you are saturating your nic ports - how is the network configured?
We are setting up the protocol analyzers now. We are monitoring the mainframe port and the switch ports on our core switch to this particular host.
I have two NICs on this particular network, one to each of two core data center switches. Utilization on the team is nominal, 275 Mbps or just less than 30% of one NIC. _____________________________________________________________________ James Wood | Systems Administrator | Arizona Department of Transportation
Look at the pSwitches directly connected to the VMware ESX hosts. Once a customer had the wrong negotiation settings and these showed a huge number of errors. Also, ensure that for all ports connected to VMware ESX that portfast is enabled otherwise you will have issues if you are using STP (which I would assume is the case). In general, ESX likes to autonegotiate.
