Why are vmnic0 and vmnic1 disconnected on a new host but connected on two original hosts?

[Tracyp]

Hi all

We have an IBM Blade S with a couple of blades.

I have just added a new one and in the hosts console it shows vmnic0 and 1 as disconnected but on the other two hosts they are connected and are the ones selected.

Seems to me I would want to select the same NICs for the new host as the other two are using otherwise they won't be on the management network properly

Appreciate help with this

Thanks

Tracy

[weinstein5]

How are the blades configured? are they identical ro does the new blad have additional nics?

[Tracyp]

hmmm... not sure. It is an HS23 which is the replacement for the earlier HS22 which is what our existing ones are so it SHOULD be the same

[aleph0]

By my point of view is the way the two different servers threat their pNICs.

try speking whith server vendor after having a look at this https://communities.vmware.com/thread/428459

then

VMware KB: vHBAs and other PCI devices may stop responding in ESXi 5.x and ESXi/ESX 4.1 when using I...

and this

https://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/toolsctr/v1r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fdsa%2Fdsa_r_limitations_a...

if you found this aswer useful set as answerd and give points

regards

\aleph0

[khaliqamar]

Are these 4 blades in a same enclosure ? if yes check at virtualconnect level

.

[aleph0]

any news? resolved?

\aleph

[Tracyp]

Hi ☺

Akhil contacted me and is going to do a webex soon.

Thanks

Tracy