Questions tagged [vswitch]

Hyper-V's (internal or External) Virtual Switch

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Why should I enable promiscuous mode?

I'm currently using an environment lab for testing ESXi so I run nested ESX(two ESX are installed on ESX) The problem is I was trying to install vCenter on both of my lab ESX and at the end of stage 1 of deploying vCenter, I got an error that says…
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Multiple Subnets within ESXi host

I'm trying to create some subnets on an ESXi (version 6.7) host and have some VMs within these subnets with one or more that act as gateway between them. I'm trying to do this creating another VLAN on the same vSwitch but I can't find a solution…
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How to setup a VLAN switch with Hyper-V virtual external switch?

I currently have Windows Server setup with one physical ethernet port (eth0) as an external VLAN trunk connected to a Hyper-V virtual external switch for VMs to share with the host. The host uses specifically VLAN1 while the virtual switch allows…
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How to create IPv6 port group on vSwitch VMware ESXi 6.5

I was wondering how to create a IPv6 port group on a vSwitch in ESXi 6.5. I have IPV6 enabled on all the hosts in my cluster, and when creating the port group it does not ask me if it is IPv6 or not. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Prevent Guests in same vSwitch talking to one another

Long story short. I would like to prevent guests in the same vSwitch from communicating to one another. I am at a loss as to how to make this happen. Any ideas please? I have been reading on vShield, but I don't this this helps? I have Standard,…
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How to connect two vswitches in vsphere client 5?

We just had a server installed and the guy doing the installation put our server, internet access etc on one vswitch and then connected the other to our storage server, which obviously our VMs need to be able to access, which is something we can't…
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Virtual network - tracert to local vm results in over 255 hops

Why does my tracert take over a maximum of 255 hops, when both vm's are on the same local network, hosted on my laptop? I have a laptop which is connected to my home router via wireless lan with Hyper-V enabled. I have created two virtual switches:…
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Link aggregation in ESXi 5.5

I have a virtual machine on my ESXi server with Ubuntu installed on it. The server has 4 1Gb/s ports that I want to use them all for my virtual machine. An obvious (yet kinda stupid) way would be creating four vswitchs, four ethernet controllers for…
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