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no uplinks in dvSwitch created by ucs manager in vcenter 6.0

raven428c
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I trying to setup UCS vnic passthru in vCenter Server Appliance 6.0. I have:

  1. updated my UCS domain to version 2.2(6d);
  2. installed vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.0-2800571;
  3. installed ESXi 5.1 with last updates and cisco-vem-v151-5.1-1.1.1.1.zip;
  4. moved this ESXi 5.1 host to vCenter;
  5. exported vCenter extension from UCS manager;
  6. succesfully imported extension to vCenter;
  7. created vCenter, Datacenter, folder and DVS in UCS manager;

After few moments UCS have created this DVS in vCenter. When I trying to move esxi 5.1 host to this DVS there is no uplinks:

So vCenter unable to bind vmnics of ESXi to anything. Also I had tried to add ESXi host to DVS without uplinks and obviously it did'nt worked. For example this is a screenshot from vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 of same uplinks window. Also in summary page of "uplinks-pg-..." I see 1532 uplinks in VCSA 5.5, but only 1500 in VCSA 6.0.

Servers is B200-M4 with VIC 1340 adapters in chassis with 2208XP IO modules.

How to setup vnic passthru in vCSA 6.0?

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raven428c
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this is a bug of vmware vsphere web client 6.0, 6.0u1b, 6.0u2 and may be later versions. it cannot find or just cannot show any uplinks in ucs-related distributed switch. so I unable to add host to this switch through vmware vsphere web client. uplinks in switch is fine, so this bug have several workarounds. host can be added to ucs-related distributed switch through:

  1. vmware vsphere client application. it will auto assign first free uplink in switch, and directpath i/o will work;
  2. host profiles. in this case I can assign any uplink to any vmnic as I wish. this can be done in vsphere web client as in vmware vsphere client application;
  3. vmware console client or sdk. I did not tried this case, but I guess it will work fine.

success. distributed switch:

vm:

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