I previously had issues with my configuration for a standby SC nic.
I tested the failover to the standby nic one night and the standby nic did not kick in. Nothing happened the server was offline until I plugged the vmnic for the SC back in.
I currently DO NOT have port group / vSwtich policy set as the screen print attached. Question:
Does anyone have any experience with policys and standby NICs for the SC?
I have a feeling the fix will be to set the load Balancing to - "USE EXPLICIT FAILOVER ORDER"
Any thoughts / comments?
Thanks all
Hello,
Since the SC does not load balance, its portgroup should have Explicit Failover Order set. Load balancing is based off 2 or more VMs sharing the same portgroup, with only 1, the SC, load balancing is superflous.
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Hello,
Since the SC does not load balance, its portgroup should have Explicit Failover Order set. Load balancing is based off 2 or more VMs sharing the same portgroup, with only 1, the SC, load balancing is superflous.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
====
Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
Blue Gears and SearchVMware Pro Blogs: http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Blog_Roll
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So do you generally use the port group policys or vSwtich policys as the "overseer" of policys?
thanks alot for the reply
Hello,
Since I use 1 vSwitch per network, I use vSwitch policies, but if you are combining networks on the same vSwitch, then I would use portgroups.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
====
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Ahh.. thats an interesting and helpful reply!
I currenly use one port group per vSwtich.. so I guess ill practice the same.
Obrigado:D