Guest OS stops comunication. ESX 3.0

[augustom]

I have an ESX 3.0 with 2 VM (W2K3 Enterprise). Sometimes VMs stop responding to ethernet requests but I can connect to console via Infrastructure client. If I disable the VM's network card and enable it again it begins working. The problem appears on both VMs not necessarily on same time.

What can be wrong?

Thanks in advance

[esiebert7625]

What is your network configuration like (vswitches, nics)? Are you using VLAN tagging? Are these VM's new or conversions from physical?

[augustom]

Me physical server has 4 NICS but I only use one of them, without vswitches neither VLANs. Both VM are new installations.

Best Regards,

[esiebert7625]

fyi... I've moved this thread to the ESX3 forum.

You have to have at least one vswitch for ESX to work. Post the output of the esxcfg-vswitch -l and esxcfg-nics -l commands from the service console

[augustom]

\[root@ptgvmw02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -l

Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports Uplinks

vSwitch0 32 4 32 vmnic0

PortGroup Name Internal ID VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks

VM Network portgroup1 0 0 vmnic0

Virtual Machine Networkportgroup3 0 1 vmnic0

Service Console portgroup0 0 1 vmnic0

\[root@ptgvmw02 root]# esxcfg-nics -l

Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex Description

vmnic0 02:02.00 tg3 Up 1000Mbps Full Broadcom Corporation NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter (PCI-X, 10,100,1000-T)

vmnic1 02:02.01 tg3 Down 0Mbps Half Broadcom Corporation NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter (PCI-X, 10,100,1000-T)

vmnic2 05:01.00 tg3 Down 0Mbps Half Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet

vmnic3 05:02.00 tg3 Down 0Mbps Half Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet

Best Regards,