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Network problems

Asked by sminfo in VMware, Networking Hardware

Tags: VMware ESX 3.5, HP Virtual Connect, Cisco Catalyst.

I have a complex network configuration in my server farm. I have to Cisco Catalyst 6500, with two uplink in trunk (each uplink is LACP 802.3ad). These links are connected to Ethernet ports of each HP Virtual Connect of the c7000 enclosure. The link aggregation work fine and each uplink is active and in balancing load, the "Enable VLAN Tunneling" is enable because I need a trunk in the server NICs. Each server of the Enclosure receive in each NIC a trunk, of each HP Virtual Connect. The ESX 3.5 are installed in each server, the NICs form a teaming to load balance for the Port Group. Exist many Port Group to work with vlan. More or less this is the configuration and work fine, but I have two issues.
1.-Some days ago we most to do some change of links for migration in the server farm, and many of my ESX servers stop working. The Virtual Center lost the contact with the ESX host, and the Virtual Machine lost network connection too. I entered via iLo and the configuration seems to be ok, nothing change in the configuration at all. Curiously I can't make ping to any host in or out of the subnet, and in the physical switch does not appear the MAC address of any of this host or VM. I make a restart of network "service network restart" and "service mgmt-vmware restart" but nothing happened, but when I reboot the ESX server with no change in the network configuration the problems was solve. Everything returned to normal. Any idea about this problem???
2.-I am also having problems with VMotion now, the process of migration succeed but I lost the network connectivity of this VM with the external subnet, some time try to Vmotion this VM for another host and the problem continues, but when the machines back to the original host everything work fine again.
these are the problems that I would like to resolve, thanks in advance.
Best Regard.
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