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rickygm
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esxi with IBM x3690

Hi all, I'm trying to build my lab with IBM x3690X5 with 128GB RAM, the problem I have is that I have two vm machines on IBM with esxi and it works perfect, but mount another vm that vcenter and there does not recognize my network card



IBM X3690 WITH ESXI 5.5 ===ESXI01+ESXI02

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                                            vcenter   winxp 



any idea?

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Datto
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Turn on promiscuous mode on your VSwitches.

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Datto
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Turn on promiscuous mode on your VSwitches.

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vJJSosa
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Hi, please provide more info about the new vm.

Did you install vCenter 5.5 over XP? XP is not supported for vCenter

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[VCAP5-DCA, VCP3/4/5, VCP-DT4, MCITP Network Infrastructure, HP ASE Bladesystem]
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rickygm
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Hi , the vm is win2k8 , look the picture

vswitch.jpg

this is my ESXI virtualized upon other ESXI IBM server

I log in well to ESXI, but when I created the virtual machine does not recognize my network

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rickygm
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ready , I turn on promiscuos mode on vSwitch.

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