Mistakenly enabled Traffic Shaping and broke Service Console connectivity (Please Help!!!)

[rehmaf]

NOT sure if enabling Traffic Shaping had anything to do with it, but that was the last thing I did before my VCenter lost connectivity to this particular host so they may be related. I have,

-> Checked to make sure that Service Console port on vSwitch0 has at least one live uplink vmnic (vmnic0)

-> I have done ifdown/ifup on vSwif0 but that didn't help

-> I have tried to ping SC on IP configured for vSwif0 but its not pinging (I can ping the IP by logging in directly into the service console i.e. without using SSH

? Is there a way to undo traffic shaping changes from Service Console? Is there any other way I can restore SC network connectivity? Please help

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[mehfisto]

Quick and dirty way I can think of is to create a new vSwitch, give it an uplink, and add a service console port. Then you can connect via VIC and change your vSwitch properties. Here's some steps on adding a service console port and new vSwitches. http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=423

I also found this thread on editing esx.conf, but do that at your own risk. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/146388

Hope this helps.

[ShanVMLand]

Edit the /etc/vmware/esx.conf (make a backup before change)

And change the

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/shapingPolicy/enabled = "false"

.../shapingPolicy/avgBps = "104857600"

.../shapingPolicy/burstSize = "104857600"

.../shapingPolicy/peakBps = "104857600"

After make the changes, save the file and reboot the ESX server

Thanks,

Shan

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[rehmaf]

Seems like a good solution - I'll try it

thank you for your response