Trying to "Trunk" multiple vmnics

[scottcummins]

Good day

I have an small test ESXi 5.5 environment and I am trying to aggregate 4 vmnics to a pair of stacked 3750's. I have the 4 vmnics in my "Virtual Machine Network" which is also my "Management Network" for now.  in my "Networking" properties on the ESXi Host box, I bring up the box and highlight "vswitch" then in edit. Under the "NIC Teaming"

tab, I select "load balancing" and changed it to "Route bases on IP hash"

I have created a channel-group on the 3750

interface Port-channel10
description **ESXiD01, 1/0/1,1/0/2,2/0/1,2/0/2**
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 6,7,50,100,120,195,200,250
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
spanning-tree portfast trunk
end

I then set 4 ports up exactly the same( except for the description) as follows

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
description **ESXiD01 vmnic1**
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 6,7,50,100,120,195,200,250
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
channel-group 10 mode on
spanning-tree portfast trunk

then I plug my 4 vmnics into the 4 ports configured above. I don't have any VMs on this host yet, But I do have a management IP. When I plug all my ports up I cannot access the Management IP. If I take one of the ports and plug it into an access port on VLAN 250 (My management IP is 10.250.250.21 on VLAN 250) I can access it and bring up my VSphere console. Can anyone see what I am doing incorrectly or what I am missing?

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

I think you have to add all vlans tags (6,7,50,100,120,195,200,250) to the Esxi host as well.

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004252

HTH

[mattjones03]

Hi,

From the VMware configuration menu you will need to define the VLAN that is associated with your management network.

To do this, complete the following steps from the VMware 5.5 host console screen, as I assume you do not have access via the vSphere client at present;

1. Enter into 'System Customisation'
2. Navigate to 'Configure Management Network' and press enter
3. Navigate to 'VLAN (optional)' and press enter
4. In the VLAN ID field, enter the VLAN number that is associated with your management network, and press enter.
5. Now, exit out of each of the screens, and you should be prompted to restart the management network agent. Select yes.

Hopefully, this will resolve the issue you are experiencing.

[scottcummins]

Gentlemen

Thank you very much for your response. I am going to reconfigure my ESXi Host and see if I can then access it like I want. I will let you know

[scottcummins]

Gentlemen

Thank you and I did resolve my issue, By taking your advice and deleting and re-creating the standard switches in my VMware vsphere