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Removing a vNIC Template from a vNIC on a LAN Connectivity Policy.

scott72
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Is there anyway to non-disruptively remove a vNIC template from a vNIC tied to LAN Connectivity policy?

 

I need to enable failover on the fabric, but since a consultant wanted us to use the same vNIC template for ESX and a Windows SQL Baremetal blade, we now have a dilemma.  ESX is using active/active so we had to disable failover, but active/active NIC teaming on Windows is causing MAC flapping since LACP is not supported on the FIs.

 

I am guessing I am going to have to create a new vNIC template, and change it on the LAN connectivity policy, but that is going to potentially cause some problems.

 

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Any help is much appreciated.

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Kirk J
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Greetings.

You are going to have to adjust multiple items...

  • Assuming your ESXi and Windows SPs are using a separate SP template:
    • Create new Vnic templates to match your failover requirements
    • Create new LAN connectivity policy referencing your new vnic templates
      • Alternately, you can directly reference your vnic templates in your service profile template, network section.
  • If you are using same SP templates for everything, then  you would need to split out your ESXi and Windows SP templates, to reference your various LAN connectivity policies.

I don't think you can avoid a reboot.

Theoretically, applying another lan connectivity policy with same number of vnics, with same eth names, referencing the same MAC pools, 'might' apply without a reboot, but I doubt it.  Enabling 'failover' always requires a reboot regardless.

 

Kirk...

Thanks, yeah I don't mind a reboot.  I am just worried about re-ordering of vNICS, and MAC address changes since they are tied to a NIC team on the Windows side.  There are separate SP templates for the ESX and Windows, they are just using a common vNIC template which is the problem.

mojafri
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

You can't enable fabric failover on vNICs without reboot of server.


Regards,

MJ 

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