Hello
Was wondering if someone could shine some light on an error I’m seeing in ESX. The environment has been in for some time now and we are not seeing any performance issues but the monitoring tool (SolarWinds Orion) fired out a few errors to do with receive errors and I would like to know if its anything to worry about and hopefully stop!!!
When I run “esxcli network nic stats get –n vmnic4” I see the errors
The line is called “Receive over errors” does anyone know what it means?
~ # esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic4
NIC statistics for vmnic4
Packets received: 5190083
Packets sent: 4478571
Bytes received: 28846175899
Bytes sent: 10429397248
Receive packets dropped: 0
Transmit packets dropped: 0
Total receive errors: 9
Receive length errors: 0
Receive over errors: 9
Receive CRC errors: 0
Receive frame errors: 0
Receive FIFO errors: 0
Receive missed errors: 0
Total transmit errors: 0
Transmit aborted errors: 0
Transmit carrier errors: 0
Transmit FIFO errors: 0
Transmit heartbeat errors: 0
Transmit window errors: 0
(I know its not many errors but the ESX host was rebooted and cleared the counters, so its only been up a few hours)
Quick rundown on the kit
Dell EqualLogic SAN
Dell PowerConnect 8024 Switch
Dell R815 Server (Broadcom BCM57711 10GB Card)
ESXi 5.1
Many Thanks
