ping response between VM's

[PerryWhittle]

What i have is a vswitch with 3 VM's connected to it, each VM has 1 virtual nic installed (AMD accelerated nic). the vswitch has 2 physical nics uplinked to give access to the physical network. I tried pinging from my virtual application server to the virtual database server and it pings happily but after a random time just drops. Have you seen this before?

Regards

Pez

[oreeh]

check this thread http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=730401

and probably this one too http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=77227

[PerryWhittle]

hmm, they complain of slow response times whereas mine actually starts dropping packets full stop. You start the ping and it replies happily the randomly after a while it stops replying?

[oreeh]

Do you have DRS or HA running?

If yes it could be a MAC / ARP caching problems with your switches.

[PerryWhittle]

both are not being used

[PerryWhittle]

found the problem, sorry to waste everyones time

[oreeh]

Would you mind telling us what the problem was?

[PerryWhittle]

user error,

the ip address for the machine was in use elswhere. I opened the console to login and was greeted by a message informing me that there was an ip conflict