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