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Hi,<br />
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Regarding <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28375924/VMWare-ESXi-5-1-setup-port-mirroring-for-vm.html" rel="ugc">this </a>question:<br />
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For multicast, please confirm following steps are correct:<br />
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1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I put vm’s of which I want to monitor a multicast session on the same ESX host and disable DRS for them<br />
2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I enable promiscuous mode for vswitch as well as port groups of the vm hosts<br />
3. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I start a netmon/wireshark, all traffic should be captured now<br />
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Please note this is a production environment, I will leave the settings only enabled for the time of the capture.<br />
It won’t have any further impact, right?<br />
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Please advise.<br />
J.
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Hi,

Regarding this  (https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28375924/VMWare-ESXi-5-1-setup-port-mirroring-for-vm.html)question:

For multicast, please confirm following steps are correct:

1.	I put vm’s of which I want to monitor a multicast session on the same ESX host and disable DRS for them
2.	I enable promiscuous mode for vswitch as well as port groups of the vm hosts
3.	I start a netmon/wireshark, all traffic should be captured now

Please note this is a production environment, I will leave the settings only enabled for the time of the capture.
It won’t have any further impact, right?

Please advise.
J.

Multicast monitoring on 2 vmware ESXi vm's (ESXi 5.5)

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