Have a new build cluster of Dell 730s and 740s, 14 total. 3 dis switches configured, data for VMs, VSAN and vMotion. Each has a primary 10G and secondary 10G link with jumbo MTU on all but the data. So my issue is are hosts are continually throwing alarms for ping health and big MTU but then resolves and then comes back on another or multiple hosts, then goes away. Also seeing portion errors every so often. Typically it seems stable when nothing is happening, no users on VM’s. Also, having failures when publishing, seems to get to last step and fails, with logs showing something about error cloning..
So a couple questions, obviously something’s up with my network but what? We’ve verified MTU size and can ping with from each host to the next with the -s 9000 without issue. So here’s the rest of the environment, we don’t have EVC on, can’t without jumping through some hoops as VC is on our hosts. So was wondering if different hardware sets could cause network and publishing issues? Oir hosts have different intel chips and greater storage. When we tried to vMotion a running vm from a 730 to a 740 it fails, so I know we need to get EVC turned on, but does anyone think that will cure our other issues?
