Hi guys
i am experiencing some real issues trying to get a testing lab setup to study for my VCP.
I completed my VCP550 course at the beginning of 2015 but due to some issues with my health i was unable to go onto the exam and get it done.
I am now in a position to start working on getting my VCP again. However i am having some serious problems getting anywhere.
I have attempted to setup the following lab twice:
2 ESXi hosts
1 vCenter virtual appliance
1 SAN - OpenFiler
1 Router/DNS/DHCP - ClearOS
1 lab PC (Windows 7)
Host setup:
8 NICs seperated across 4 networks:
2 Management (VMNIC 0 + 1)
2 Storage (VMNIC 2 + 3)
2 Vmotion (VMNIC 4 + 5)
2 User traffic (VMNIC 6 + 7)
The first attempt was done using VMware workstation 12 pro on my workstation - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (hex core)/16gb RAM
I was able to get vcenter, hosts and storage all working perfectly. However vMotion would not migrate powered on VMs. Offline VM's would error at 14% complaining saying the hosts could not communicate over the network. I connected to each host and attempted to VMKPing the other, but could get no reply whatsoever.
After a few recreations of the lab, i gave up thinking there was an issue with my PC i wasn';t aware of. I moved to creating the lab on my production network at work. This is the same setup for the lab itself, however the spec of the host it is running on is Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2/256gb RAM
This time around i am unable to get any connection over the storage network. I have seperated the networks into virtual networks but there appears to be no traffic on that network, i can ping across the management network without any issue, but pings from the SAN to the hosts and vice verse show no connectivity at all
This is knocking my confidence in myself to get my VCP, i am the sole VMware engineer on our site and i was feeling confident about my skills but due to these issues i am quite worried im doing something wrong and causing these issues myself.
Anyway, any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated!
