Re: Intel 10Gb on VMware (AMD) ESX 4.0 intermittent problem

[Shane Short <shane () short id au>]

 We had this once before on an Intel GigE ethernet adapter..
The hacky fix was to leave a ping running continuously (mtr in this case) which solved the problem.

Sounds like a arp/mac learning issue-- I think it got fixed when we re-installed ESXi on that machine.

-Shane

On 20/02/2010, at 7:06 PM, Steven King wrote:

> Have you applied the ESX patches. I don't run ESX, but ESXi, and there
> was a firmware patch that addressed some networking issues on Linux
> systems. Might give that a try if you have not already.
>
> On 2/19/10 3:52 PM, LEdouard Louis wrote:
> > Has anyone experience problems using Intel 10 Gb NIC on VMware (AMD) ESX
> > 4.0?
> >
> >
> >
> > Some VM's are experiencing intermittent network drop issues even though
> > the actual VM is online.  The VM are unable to ping out or respond to
> > ping and sometime unable to ping VM-to-Vm on the same physical server.
> >
> > The problem is only on some VM's on the same ESX host.  We move the vms
> > to another ESX 4.0 with same Intel 10 GB card, the problem is resolve,
> > but return days later with same VM at new location.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Intel 10 GB has VMDQ features was not sure if that is part of the
> > problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > --Louis
>
> -- 
> Steve King
>
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