Hi,
I am in a situation where vmk1 on my esxi4.1 host is somehow disabled. The enabled column in esxcfg-vmknic -l says "false"...
# esxcfg-vmknic -l
Interface Port Group/DVPort IP Family IP Address Netmask Broadcast MAC Address MTU TSO MSS Enabled Type
vmk0 289 IPv4 10.65.xx.xx 255.255.224.0 10.65.xx.xx xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 1500 65535 true STATIC
vmk1 511 IPv4 10.65.xx.xx 255.255.224.0 10.65.xx.xx xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 1500 0 false STATIC
It's also gone from the vCentre GUI. I tried various forms of esxcfg-vmknic -e but i'm not clear on the syntax and get the message "invalid port group".
How do I enable it again?
Thanks
Nick
Try this command:
esxcfg-vmknic -e 511
Thanks Rickard, I've tried that and I get:
'Invalid portgroup: 511"
Any ideas?
Are you using ordinary vSwitches or Distributed vSwitches?
Distributed vswitches.
When you do a esxcfg-vswitch -l is that port ID listed?
Hi!
Have the same problem. No, it's not listed.
Can you try a delete operation or using the --dvs-name and --dvport-id parameter?
I.e. run esxcfg-vmknic -e vmk1 --dvs-name MyDVS --dvport-id 511
Maybe you need to specify the --portgroup parameter with the dvPortgroup name your vmk is connected to too/instead.
--dvport-id
-v
Setting DVPort ID of the connection point (valid for vSphere 4.0 and later). Requires --dvs-name parameter.
--dvs-name
-s
Setting DVSwitch name of the connection point (valid for vSphere 4.0 and later). Requires --dvport-id parameter
--portgroup
-p
Setting portgroup as connection point
If using -s and -v options instead the portgroup it says:
Valid portgroup/DVPort parameters required.
Specified DVPort ID is not listed in esxcfg-vswitch -l
but is shown in esxcfg-vmknic -l
I tried to reproduce your issue and used esxcli instead of esxcfg-vmknic, but it shouldn't really make a difference. Anyways, it seems like disabling the vmknic on the host-side breaks the actual dvPort on the dvSwitch-side, creating a kind of hen/egg issue:
# esxcli network ip interface list
vmk2
Name: vmk2
MAC Address: 00:50:56:44:2e:2d
Enabled: true
Portset: DvsPortset-1
Portgroup: N/A
VDS Name: DVSwitch_1
VDS UUID: eb 87 02 50 9c 24 6d 6d-c2 60 55 8c 58 ef f3 69
VDS Port: 5757
VDS Connection: 1498871745
MTU: 1500
TSO MSS: 65535
Port ID: 67108872
# esxcli network ip interface set --enabled 0 --interface-name vmk2
# esxcli network ip interface list
vmk2
Name: vmk2
MAC Address: 00:50:56:44:2e:2d
Enabled: false
Portset: DvsPortset-1
Portgroup: N/A
VDS Name: DVSwitch_1
VDS UUID: eb 87 02 50 9c 24 6d 6d-c2 60 55 8c 58 ef f3 69
VDS Port: 5757
VDS Connection: 1498871745
MTU: 0
TSO MSS: 0
Port ID: 0Re-enable does NOT work:
# esxcli network ip interface set --enabled 1 --interface-name vmk2
Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Not found. Please see the VMkernel log for detailed error information
vmkernel log contains:
2013-01-23T11:06:08.991Z cpu15:39357)WARNING: Tcpip_Vmk: 851: Could not open a port to 5757: Not found
2013-01-23T11:06:08.991Z cpu15:39357)WARNING: Tcpip_Vmk: 788: Unable to attach vmk2 to 5757 [error = 0xbad0003]
2013-01-23T11:06:56.652Z cpu0:37226)WARNING: Tcpip_Vmk: 851: Could not open a port to 5757: Not found
2013-01-23T11:06:56.652Z cpu0:37226)WARNING: Tcpip_Vmk: 788: Unable to attach vmk2 to 5757 [error = 0xbad0003]
2013-01-23T11:08:03.423Z cpu0:39374)WARNING: Tcpip_Vmk: 851: Could not open a port to 5757: Not found
2013-01-23T11:08:03.423Z cpu0:39374)WARNING: Tcpip_Vmk: 788: Unable to attach vmk2 to 5757 [error = 0xbad0003]
Note how disabling it set the Port ID to 0. Weird. Also, net-dvs | grep 5757 -A50 listed detailed info on the dvPort where my vmk2 was attached before, but now it doesn't.
I had to remove the stale vmkernel port and manually create a new one:
# esxcli network ip interface remove --interface-name vmk2
Thanks to reply. The problem is that I use ESXi 4.1 and there is no such namespace in ESXCLI to manipulate vmkernel interfaces. And esxcfg-vmknic doesn't allow operations on vmkernel providing it's name - only portID, which actually doesn't exist, so that leads to error.
Hey guys,
We had the exact problem. Got it resolved.
Issue was we had VMK0 and VMK1 with dvSwitch port group configured.
Found the portgroup ID in my case it was 412
Then deleted the vmk0
Solved using the following steps:
1. Look for dvportgroup
esxcfg-vmknic -l
note downthe port number
2. Delete existing VMK0 nic
esxcfg-vmknic -d -s DVSwitch_name -p DVPort
3. Recreate the vmk* nic by using the command below with the DVPort number
esxcfg-vmknic -a -s DVSwitch_name -p DVPort -i IPAddress -n NetMask
No network down time for VMs