Link agregation problem

[NPetrov]

Hi all.

I have a singe ESX host. It has 2 built-in NICs and 3 Intel Dual Port Nics.

I have created 3 virtual Switches. 1st is for the ESX VMKernel Port and one VM, and 2nd and 3rd are shared between few VMs.

The 1st virutal switch uses the two built-in NICs, one set as a standby for the other.

The 2nd and 3rd vSwitches are connected to one of the ports on each Intel NIC. I have configured NIC teaming based on IP hash. Each NIC is configured manualy to 1000/Ful Duplex. Same is done at the switch.

The swich is 3com Baseline Switch 2924-SFP Plus. I have configured static link agregation on it (no LACP). No VLANs are configured.

I have checked several times if the correct port of the switch is connected to the correct NIC.

From the VMs connected to each vSwitch I can access the local network and Internet, but I cannot access the VMs from the other vSwitches.

What is the cause of this?

Thanks.

[weinstein5]

Welcome to the Forums - So potentially like a routing problem on your netwrok - What IP addresses and net masks are using for the VMs?

[NPetrov]

192.168.1.0/24

All VMs are in that network. When I move the VMs to one vSwitch they see each other.

Is there something that I should enable on the ESX or on the 3com switch, so the traffic can pass between the different agregation groups?

[NPetrov]

Hi guys,

I need help kind of urgently. My time frame is short.

Thanks.