New Load of ESX 3.0.1 - Destination Host Unreachable

[BDogg]

It seems like I'm missing something very obvious. I installed ESX 3.0.1 on a Blade in my IBM BladeCenter. When I try to ping the default gw I get "Destination Host Unreachable"? I can ping my own IP (172.16.54.20). I've played around some with the esxcfg-vswitch things to no avail. What am I missing?

[BDogg]

Also when I run the 'route' command it takes quite a long time for the last entry "default" to show up - compared to my other VMWare servers (2.X) the route table writes right away.

[BDogg]

Could this be a link speed issue? Both of my NICs are 1000 - should the one assigned to the console be at 100?

[Rumple]

I just had this problem and it was because during the install didn't pick the correct pNIC for the vswitch.

I think I used the command to list the virtual switches which showed the vmnic assigned and then I used the esxcfg-nic command to list the nics and unplugged them to identify them.

Worked great once I straightened out which nic was which.

[rdhickman]

I'm testing out VI and have the same issue. I've removed all other NICs so there's only one and I've reinstalled, but it cannot ping any other address, even a router it's directly plugged into. Service Console portgroup appears to be linked to vmnic0 (which is an Intel 1000/PT server adapter, retail).

Could you potentially list the commands you used to resolve this issue?

[Rumple]

esxcfg-nics -l - lists all the nics

esxcfg-vswitch -l - lists switch info

Once I realized I had the wrong vmic assigned to vSwitch0, then I used

esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -U <vnic#> (wrong nic)

esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -L <vnic#> (correct nic)

[rdhickman]

Thanks, I seem to have only vmnic though (as predicted, since there's one card) and this doesn't appear to be the solution, for me at least.

[khalid_m]

hi

i am allso facing same problem HOST unreachable as u suggest

enter command line

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

...

it return result as

-blash: esxcfg: command not found

please can u specify where to put these command. i am new to vmware and linux enviroment

thank u in adavance

[Rumple]

you are at the correct spot.

type esxcfg and then keep hitting the tab key. After a couple times it should list all the commands that start with esxcfg. Remember that with linux all commands are case sensitive as well so esxcfg-vswitch is not the same as esxcfg-vSwitch. Be sure to match the case from that above listing.

In your case, the actual command is esxcfg-nics and the -l is a switch (for list).

\# esxcfg-nics -l

We just rebuilt the test environment yesterday using my instructions and I forgot to change the network screenshot so we ended up screwing up the networking. I'll copy/paste the commands we used to change the NIC order.