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Vmware Vswitch communication issue over seperate ESX servers
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Have just installed a VMware setup. I have two ESX servers linked to an MSA with HA. I have a switch called Virtual Machine network with a server 2008 running on the live network witout issue.
I have created a test switch and added two virtual machines to this, XP-Test and Server-Test. The XP machine is currently hosted on the ESX1 and the Server-Test is hosted on the ESX2. Both machines have static IP's in the same range but can not see each other. If another XP machine is hoste on the ESX1 server the machines can see ach other.
In the Vcenter when looking under Networking and the Test switch both machines are listed.
any ideas would be great as i am quite new to this, thanks in advance.
Have just installed a VMware setup. I have two ESX servers linked to an MSA with HA. I have a switch called Virtual Machine network with a server 2008 running on the live network witout issue.
I have created a test switch and added two virtual machines to this, XP-Test and Server-Test. The XP machine is currently hosted on the ESX1 and the Server-Test is hosted on the ESX2. Both machines have static IP's in the same range but can not see each other. If another XP machine is hoste on the ESX1 server the machines can see ach other.
In the Vcenter when looking under Networking and the Test switch both machines are listed.
any ideas would be great as i am quite new to this, thanks in advance.
Can you screenshot the networking config of both esx?
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I did that but it didnt make a difference. I will test it again and update.
Thanks
Thanks
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After adding the network cards to the switchs we have a little conectiity now but nothing that is quite working correct.
Any thoughts?
VMware-Ping.jpg
Any thoughts?
VMware-Ping.jpg
Can you ensure no firewall is running on each host
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We have no firewalls running on either of the XP-Test machines, when running both XP-test1 and XP-test2 on the same Esx server there is no issue with Pinging.
Thanks for the info on the cross over (nice and easy)
Thanks for the info on the cross over (nice and easy)
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Split the points between the two. both had good info that helped but stil did not resolve the issue. I will post an answer in the future if i find one