ESXi 6.7.0 - VNIC / Physical Down/Down

[farbeyond]

Hi Guys,

I have a UCS server running ESXi 6.7.0. For whatever reason, my VMNIC2-5 will not physically come up. I have tried to SSH'n in to the box and shutting them down and restarting, but they remain down. I am currently plugged in to VNIC 2, from there in to my 9300 - as you can see, the port is down/down.

Is there anything else I can try?

Thanks.

[scott28tt]

Are there any differences between the configuration of the physical switch ports that the NIC ports are cabled into?

[farbeyond]

Hi Scott,

No, both 1G, so both auto/autp.

Cheers

[berndweyand]

you can force link up with : esxcli network nic up -n vmnic1

also have a look at the vmkernel.log - there you can find the reason for not coming up

[farbeyond]

Already tried this, esxcli network nic up -n vmnic1, but thank you.

[berndweyand]

and the content of vmkernel.log ?

[farbeyond]

2020-04-09T10:20:24.771Z cpu33:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T10:29:36.974Z cpu30:2099160 opID=fbed0f38)World: 11943: VC opID esxui-2305-f1dd maps to vmkernel opID fbed0f38

2020-04-09T10:29:36.974Z cpu30:2099160 opID=fbed0f38)NetPortset: 1959: Activating portset #3 as vSwitchSDA (cswitch) with 7936 ports, index mask is 0x1fff status Success

2020-04-09T10:29:36.974Z cpu30:2099160 opID=fbed0f38)NetPort: 1359: enabled port 0x3000001 with mac 00:00:00:00:00:00

2020-04-09T10:29:36.974Z cpu30:2099160 opID=fbed0f38)CDP: CdpEnableListen:3690: listening  on vSwitchSDA

2020-04-09T10:29:36.974Z cpu18:2097893)cswitch: VSwitchCreateAgingWorld:318: [nsx@6876 comp="nsx-esx" subcomp="vswitch"]Created aging timer world for vswitch vSwitchSDA

2020-04-09T10:29:37.001Z cpu30:2099160 opID=fbed0f38)NetPort: 1580: disabled port 0x4

2020-04-09T10:29:37.001Z cpu11:2097921)NetSched: 654: vmnic2-0-tx: worldID = 2097921 exits

2020-04-09T10:29:37.001Z cpu23:2097316)igbn: igbn_ChangeUplinkCap:1214: toggled hw VLAN offload off

2020-04-09T10:29:37.002Z cpu23:2097316)igbn: igbn_ChangeUplinkCap:1223: toggled hw VLAN offload on

2020-04-09T10:29:37.002Z cpu23:2097316)igbn: igbn_ChangeUplinkCap:1214: toggled hw VLAN offload on

2020-04-09T10:29:37.002Z cpu30:2099160 opID=fbed0f38)Uplink: 11689: enabled port 0x3000002 with mac b4:96:91:24:a9:74

2020-04-09T10:29:37.002Z cpu34:2097930)Net: 2456: connected Shadow of vmnic2  to null config, portID 0x3000003

2020-04-09T10:29:37.002Z cpu34:2097930)NetPort: 1359: enabled port 0x3000003 with mac 00:50:56:5c:6c:a2

2020-04-09T10:30:24.771Z cpu29:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T10:40:24.771Z cpu38:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T10:50:24.771Z cpu38:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T11:00:24.772Z cpu30:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T11:10:24.772Z cpu29:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T11:20:24.772Z cpu20:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T11:30:24.772Z cpu26:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T11:40:24.772Z cpu23:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T11:43:41.366Z cpu1:2098020)ScsiDeviceIO: 3435: Cmd(0x459a4ae64600) 0x85, CmdSN 0x14 from world 2099656 to dev "naa.6cc167e972f3460023fdaff503f6c05a" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.

2020-04-09T11:50:24.772Z cpu34:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T12:00:24.772Z cpu32:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T12:10:24.773Z cpu29:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T12:20:24.773Z cpu24:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T12:30:24.773Z cpu24:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T12:40:24.773Z cpu24:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T12:50:24.773Z cpu30:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T13:00:24.773Z cpu30:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T13:10:24.773Z cpu22:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T13:20:24.773Z cpu33:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T13:30:24.774Z cpu26:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T13:40:24.774Z cpu26:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

2020-04-09T13:43:41.492Z cpu1:2098020)ScsiDeviceIO: 3435: Cmd(0x459a4b0af540) 0x85, CmdSN 0x28 from world 2099656 to dev "naa.6cc167e972f3460023fdaff503f6c05a" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.

2020-04-09T13:50:24.774Z cpu21:2097972)DVFilter: 5964: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts

[berndweyand]

ok there is nothing usable in the log that could help.

maybe a driver/firmware-problem.

a few questions:

- what exact hardware is it ?

- which esxi-image did you use (vmware or customized)?

- which esxi version is it (buildnumber)

- is it a fresh install or upgraded from an older version ?

- did vmnic2-5 have ever worked ?

- do you see an uplink on the correspondend switchport?