Hi all,
I'm deploying some ESX in a client and, swomething very weird happened, let me explain:
The ESX server taht has a weird behaviour is an IBM x3550, full of CPUs and RAM, 2 hbas, 2 onboard nics + a quad port Intel eth adapter.
Two days ago, the ESX had the two onboard nics for SC and VMotion (with VLAN tagging). The rest, were in vSwitch1 and providing service to 10 portgroups (each one in a VLAN). Ok, so everithing was up and runinng!
Today, our customer called me saying that VMs on that server had no network link. Our customer has still no access to remove nics from vSwitch nor things like that. Once VMs have been vmotioned and host in maintenance mode, I've seen that the vSwitch1 (4 eth devices, 10 VLANS, and everithing ok...) has no vmnics assigned!!!! What I checked after that is that the links we're up to reassign them to vswitch1 but, here is the surprise and weird thing:
no additional vmnics are present in the host! WOW!!! They've disapeared!!!!! I've checked phisycally the server and the quad port adapter is showing network activity!!
I've did a lspci, and it just shows vmnic0 and vmnic1, vmnics 2, 3, 4 and 5 are no longer present!
inside vmkwarning, I've seen that 12 May at 13:10:01 I've the following message:
vmkernel: 0:00:00:02.979 cpu3:1036)WARNING: PCI: 1967: No such device
I've checked vmkernel logs, hostd logs and everithing seems ok. On the boot.log (last boot, a day before), the server lists all de vmnics correctly.
The eth adapter is a Intel PRO/1000 PT Low Profile Quad Port PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Contoller
Actually I cannot open an SR due to external non-technical factors...
As anyone had such issue? Any hint clue?
Many thanks in advance!
Alex
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