Reorder vmnic2 & 3 to vmnic0 & 1

[Knothead00]

I am having a routing issue where mgmt traffic is coming in on vmnic2 & 3 but going out vmnic0 & 1. Note the table below:

[root@nehcc7vh01:~] esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI          Driver      Link Speed     Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:01:00.0 bnx2x       Up   10000Mbps Full   14:18:77:44:81:2f 1500   Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57800 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

vmnic1  0000:01:00.1 bnx2x       Down 0Mbps     Half   14:18:77:44:81:31 1500   Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57800 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

vmnic2  0000:01:00.2 bnx2x       Up   1000Mbps  Full   14:18:77:44:81:33 1500   Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57800 1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

vmnic3  0000:01:00.3 bnx2x       Up   1000Mbps  Full   14:18:77:44:81:35 1500   Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57800 1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

vmnic4  0000:82:00.0 bnx2x       Up   10000Mbps Full   00:0e:1e:bb:f5:70 1500   Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

vmnic5  0000:82:00.1 bnx2x       Up   10000Mbps Full   00:0e:1e:bb:f5:72 1500   Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

What is the best way to handling this? The mgmt interface are the 1G nic's vmnic2 & 3.

What is the best way to handle this?

[virtualg_uk]

Could you attach a screenshot of your vSwitches so I can see the configuration?

[john23]

as per output your vmnic1 is down. ideally you  should have one route for management network, then the traffic will be handled from same nics only..

[MKguy]

ESXi (management) interfaces are not physical NICs (vmnicX). They are virtual vmkernel interfaces (vmkX) bound to vSwitches which in turn have physical uplinks assigned.

If you want vmkernel traffic to be forwarded through specific physical NICs, you have to configure your vSwitches and vmkernel ports appropriately.

Post the output of the following shell commands to get a full picture:

esxcli network vswitch standard list

esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware list

esxcli network ip interface list

esxcli network ip route ipv4 list

esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get