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Hi all,
We are facing what seems to be a very weird problem. We have a TAC case and a separate VMware case, but up until this point there has been no idea as to what is causing it.
The problem
Our system will only come online when one side of the VP...
Hello everyone,Please find attached a basic script to extract the kickstart, system and ucsm firmware from the ucs infra bundle (and others..). I am not sure as to the exact legality of this, so admin, if you object to this material, feel free to re...
Hi Yasser,
That's very interesting - actually, yesterday we put a VM PG on vSwitch0 too, without vmk obviously, and failover worked without a problem.
This problem definitely seems to be isolated to MGMT traffic, and perhaps only when a vmk is attach...
Hi Wes,
We did some of your suggestions, and setup a SPAN to watch the ARPs, etc...
What we found when we executed a ping from another subnet to the ESXi host:
1) When the A and B side were both up, an ARP request came from ESXi to the N5k on the A s...
Hi,
We have used all of the failover policies.... portid, iphash, mac, explicit.. all the same behaviour.
I will have to go back to our network team... a hard sell though, as this N5k has been serving our UCS blade infrastructure (which runs our mai...
Hi Wes,
Thanks for your reply.
You make good points, especially about understanding the path of the packets. I just wanted to add a couple of points which I maybe did not make clear:
1) This is a standalone C-series. It is not managed by UCSM.
2) T...
