Hi,
I have installed esxi 5.1 on a assembled intel 5500bc motherboard along with a dual port intel 10g fibre lan card.
The has gone smooth on the vmware side, i do see that within vmware ethtool shows the adapter as fibre.
But the guest system is showing the virtual card as twisted pair.
why is this and how can i solve this problem,
please do help me out.
# ethtool vmnic3
Settings for vmnic3:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: Unknown! (10000)
Duplex: Full
Port: FIBRE
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: external
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: d
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
Link detected: yes
vyatta@vyatta-testing1:~$ sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: off
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: uag
Wake-on: d
Link detected: yes
Thanks in advance
Are you using a vmxnet3 vNIC on the VM? This is perfectly normal as the hardware the guest sees is completely abstracted from whatever physical your host has and the generic virtual device is not related to the physical NICs. You could have a 10Mbit BNC physical connection, or a WLAN adapter for that matter, and the guest would still always see a 10GbE virtual Ethernet NIC. So don't worry about that, this is perfectly fine.
The only way you would be able to really pass physical properties of a device to a VM would be via vmdirectpath passthru, which presents the physical PCI(e) device directly to the guest but that is something very unusual which generally makes no sense in 99% of environments.
Are you using a vmxnet3 vNIC on the VM? This is perfectly normal as the hardware the guest sees is completely abstracted from whatever physical your host has and the generic virtual device is not related to the physical NICs. You could have a 10Mbit BNC physical connection, or a WLAN adapter for that matter, and the guest would still always see a 10GbE virtual Ethernet NIC. So don't worry about that, this is perfectly fine.
The only way you would be able to really pass physical properties of a device to a VM would be via vmdirectpath passthru, which presents the physical PCI(e) device directly to the guest but that is something very unusual which generally makes no sense in 99% of environments.