I'll open a ticket, but this may be something stupid so I prefer to embarrass myself here before I start the "support call slow dance" Two identical ESX 3.5 servers (not ESXi or ESXembedde...
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I'll open a ticket, but this may be something stupid so I prefer to embarrass myself here before I start the "support call slow dance" Two identical ESX 3.5 servers (not ESXi or ESXembedded) HP DL580G5, 2x QLogic HBA, 2x Intel 10G NIC, 1x Intel Quad 1G NIC Both servers were at ESX35U2 and working great in all respects. Silly me: I upgraded one server to ESX35U3 (Just before the ixgbe caution on the website) and everything broke, likely due to leaving the SAN connected during the upgrade and the user friendly upgrade process finding an old Linux partition on a LUN and using that to help out. At the time, I then reinstalled ESX35U3 from scratch and everything except the 10G NICs worked. The 10G NICs show as live from the network switch side and from the ESX side. However, when I VMotion a VM from the U2 server to the U3 server I can no longer ping the VM. If I reconfigure the vswitch on the U3 box to attach a 1G NIC to the VSwitch, pings work fine. So the problem is on the 10G side. I have upgraded the server BIOS before the reinstall so it is current as of early December. Today I installed the Dec 30 ixgbe (V 1.3.31.6-136074) driver following the VMware instructions with the driver using the "Driver CD as an Update CD Only" and it worked properly. The esxupdate query shows that the driver was installed, and vmkload_mod -l shows the driver is running (although the driver version isn't shown in the output that I can see). I have the same symptoms. When the vswitch is connected to a 1G NIC, I can ping the VM. When the vswitch is connected to either 10G NIC, I cannot ping the VM. This isn't critical since the one server has sufficient capacity to handle the load, but it would be nice to get back to a VMotion pair for load balancing and maintenance, and I would rather not reinstall ESX35U2 unless it's necessary. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks!!!