topic Re: clean install of ESXi7 unable to ping consistently in ESXi Discussions

clean install of ESXi7 unable to ping consistently

virtualnate — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:02:25 GMT

Anyone seen this yet on ESXi7? Clean install of esxi7 all on native VLAN with management network, same computer on network pinging all 4 at the same time and only one responds while others drop sequentially.https://youtu.be/77dfXJQuLHo

Re: clean install of ESXi7 unable to ping consistently

Alex_Romeo — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:31:48 GMT

Hi,

If you ping multiple times and the same computer that always responds to ping, or alternate?

On the physical Swich, there are no problems?

ARomeo

Re: clean install of ESXi7 unable to ping consistently

a_p_ — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:35:46 GMT

... same computer on network pinging all 4 at the same time ...

What's the purpose of having 4 IP addresses on the same subnet for a single ESXi Management?

André

PS: Please ignore this reply. I misunderstood your setup.

Re: clean install of ESXi7 unable to ping consistently

virtualnate — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:38:38 GMT

same computer pinging all 4 hosts simultaneously. I found it interesting that when one host responds to ping, the other 3 are in a no reply state, then another would start replying and the other 3 would stop. They are all plugged into a standard switch, no VLANs configured yet on a 192.168.0.0 subnet in a home lab environment. Just interesting that I cannot get them to stay connected simultaneously, and thereby causing challenges around validating VMKPing between each other. I have a VM running on one of the hosts that responds back to ping successfully but the service console network just is not working. I'm starting to wonder if there's a network driver issue or something else I missed somehow. I may end up just recreating the vmkernel port groups on all hosts to see if I can get them to respond back. Brand new gigabit switch that was in place prior to upgrade and everything was working based on existing cable hookups prior to the upgrade.

Re: clean install of ESXi7 unable to ping consistently

Alex_Romeo — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:44:58 GMT

Ok! then if you did an upgrade, it can be a Drivers problem ... do the tests you said and update me that it is interesting.