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Stan_Noel
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v/m NIC won't stay connected

Powered down SAN environment over the weekend. Normal, graceful shutdown using prescribed IPL procedures. Powered back on and all but two v/m are operational. v/m NIC won't stay connected even after selecting and allowing for v/m modification. Both v/m's reside on same ESX host. Have re-installed NIC, changed vlan, disable/enable NIC all without success. All three ESX hosts are operational. All v/m's on host (except the two) are operational.

SAN: EMC Clariion CX3-10, Dell PE 6850/R900 systems, ESX 3.5.0 123630, VMware Tools v123630, Guest O/S W2K3 R2 SP2 Std Ed

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No problem.

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Have you tried removing NIC and adding new one?

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Stan_Noel
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Yes, w/o success. Have disabled/enabled NIC (error 4703 in event viewer) and changed vlan. All w/o success. The ESX host servicing the problematic v/m's also holds 23 other v/m's with no problems. Just these two.

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kjb007
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Are you setting the MAC address inside the guest OS? Try modifying your vSwitch policies to allow forged transmits and mac address changes.

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Stan_Noel
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No, I'm allowing the ESX host to set the MAC address.

Looking at the vSwitch, both settings for Forged Transmits and MAC Address Changes are set to Accept.

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How many ports are on your vSwitch? If you shut one vm down, will one of these other vm's NIC come up?

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Stan_Noel
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Got it fixed. Changed the number of ports on vSwitch to 56 and reset host. Both v/m's are running great. Thanks for the tip.

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vm-au-user
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Does the mean that the ports across all switches need to be identical. I'm having the same issue.

When I edit the virtual machine and select 'connect' for the nic, its save the setting but if I got back into edit setting it show the settings didn't stick.

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