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Ready4Change
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VMotion 1000V Config

Greetings,

I have two nics assigned for vmotion going to two seperate physical switches. The nic ports are configured as access ports. Is this the correct configuration?

port-profile type vethernet vmotion

vmware port-group

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 445

no shutdown

inherit port-profile vmotion-uplink

state enabled

port-profile type ethernet vmotion-uplink

vmware port-group

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 445

no shutdown

state enabled

Right now, it is not working. I am not sure why. Am I missing anything? Do I need the mac pinning command? Thanks.

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lwatta
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port-profile type vethernet vmotion

vmware port-group

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 445

no shutdown

inherit port-profile vmotion-uplink --> take this out. This gets done automatically by the VEM

system vlan 445 --> add this. Vmotion network should always have system vlan command

state enabled

port-profile type ethernet vmotion-uplink

vmware port-group

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 445

no shutdown

channel-group auto mode on mac-pinning

system vlan 445 --> system vlan needs to be set for ingress and egress ports so set this

state enabled

Whenever you have two links on the N1KV in the same eth type port-profile a channel-group command must be used.

Give that a try and see if it starts working.

louis

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Ready4Change
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Thanks Louis,

Here is what I did according to your instructions

port-profile type ethernet uplink-vmotion

vmware port-group

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 445

channel-group auto mode on mac-pinning

no shutdown

system vlan 445

state enabled

port-profile type vethernet vmotion

vmware port-group

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 445

no shutdown

system vlan 445

state enabled

We are using version 4.0(4)SV1(3a) in ESXi 4.1

It stops at 10% when I try to migrate, any thoughts?

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lwatta
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Can you vmkping the interfaces between the ESX hosts?

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