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how much slower, what are the stats?<br />
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Are you using the VMXNET3 Network Interface in the Virtual Machine.<br />
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You will need to be running VMware Tools before switching to VMXNET2 or VMXNET3.
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how much slower, what are the stats?

Are you using the VMXNET3 Network Interface in the Virtual Machine.

You will need to be running VMware Tools before switching to VMXNET2 or VMXNET3.

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The same 2960 switch or 2 different 2960 switches? &nbsp;If it's one switch, and the 2 ports are NOT in an etherchannel group then you'll have network problems like this.
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The same 2960 switch or 2 different 2960 switches?  If it's one switch, and the 2 ports are NOT in an etherchannel group then you'll have network problems like this.

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Negative...two separate switches, <br />
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What's your virtual switch configuration?
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What's your virtual switch configuration?

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Are you pining through the management interface or a virtual machine?
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Are you pining through the management interface or a virtual machine?

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I am able to ping a VMWARE Server from the Network however when I log onto the VM server and attempt to ping to the Network the response time is much slower than when attempting to ping from the Network<br />
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The config is such that two NICS on the Server are teamed and each NIC is connected separately to a Cisco 2960 switch. &nbsp;The Cisco switches are not cascaded and LAPG is not employed.<br />

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I am able to ping a VMWARE Server from the Network however when I log onto the VM server and attempt to ping to the Network the response time is much slower than when attempting to ping from the Network

The config is such that two NICS on the Server are teamed and each NIC is connected separately to a Cisco 2960 switch.  The Cisco switches are not cascaded and LAPG is not employed.


VMWARE NETWORKING ISSUE

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.