Does anyone know where the experimental support for netflow went in ESX 4?
Currently vmkload_mod netflow no longer finds this module.
thanks in advance
Reply2.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Jun 26, 2009 6:56 PM
in response to: howie
Is this going to be brought back? Sheeez storage motion was experimental and that didnt go away lol. Actaully the netflow worked extreamly well and we used it to easily track and filter bandwidth based on ip.
Reply3.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Jun 26, 2009 6:59 PM
in response to: beckhamk
Are you using it for productiion? I cannot talk about our roadmap on this public forum obviously, but if there are lots of people's life is depending on netflow, it does not hurt for me to know. Thanks again!
Reply5.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Jul 3, 2009 2:43 AM
in response to: howie
We use this in production as well. I hope VMware are not going to now force us to implement cisco nexus 100v vswitches to use what we could use before??
Reply8.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Jul 3, 2009 3:08 AM
in response to: beckhamk
Just tried the 3.5 instruction on our ESX4 host - cannot find netflow module. Come on VMware I know it was always experimental, but I have a feeling we are going to get shafted here for some more cash to use this feature. The sales blurb says it is still experimental - so where is it??
Reply11.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Jul 3, 2009 12:09 PM
in response to: howie
I use ESX 3.5's NetFlow in my production environment, and I must say that it's been extremely useful for us. Knowing that it is no longer available in ESX 4.0 is quite frustrating since I'm upgrading to vSphere soon.
Reply12.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Jul 17, 2009 8:03 AM
in response to: HyperViZor
Just to add, we have no control of the upstream switches as the servers are colocated. They only informatio we really need is the total bandwidth used for eached VM. Not too worried about the protocols used. I wonder if any third parties could produce a plugin that records neftlow without the massive payout for the cisco 1000v??
Reply13.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Oct 30, 2009 4:05 PM
in response to: beckhamk
Can we all get to gether and beat VMware with a big stick until they bring this feature back. Upgrading my standalone hosts to enterprise plus and then buy a cisco N1000v is not an option!!
Reply14.Re: Netflow in ESX4? what happened? Nov 2, 2009 4:19 AM
In 3.5 there was also the possibility to get the traffic values by requesting it from snmpd, but the snmpd in vsphere does not supply these values anymore (according to the new MIBs, they were "obsolete" or "not implemented"), so we are also looking for another possibility to get the virtual machines's traffic values...
Netflow would be very nice, so please implement it, VMware
Thanks again!
