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Vm not accessible in network

vm machine get inaccessible suddenly.
which log can be used to verify why the vm got inaccessible
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Doodad Boy

8/22/2022 - Mon
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VMware Workstation/Player or ESXI ?
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it is ESXI
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Check the VM Switch configuration on the other server
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any special command or log i can go and look for it
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Hi, Are you able to access to remote console of this vm, with ESXi web sphere client ?
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the vm was not able to rdp and ping. when open the vm console in the vmware server windows was up.
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Hello There

What actions have you made recently?

Can you check the IP configuration? Are you able to ping anything in the network form this VM?

Can you disable Windows Firewall for testing purposes?

Isn't it the issue? Inaccessible virtual machines are named as Unknown VM
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2172
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i not able to ping anything outside from the vm. gateway, dns, domain
Hello There

Ok.

What actions have you made recently?

Can you check the IP configuration?

Can you disable Windows Firewall for testing purposes?
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no recent change has been made.
IP config in vm able to display, but just not able to perform ping and rdp toward the vm.
Firewall is disable
But i able to ping and rdp when i migrate the vm to another host
Hello There

So it's the host issue. Can you check the IP configuration on the host? The gateway, mask...

Is there any other VM on the host?
Louis LIETAER

You said "But i able to ping and rdp when i migrate the vm to another host", so you have a different network configuration for each ESXi.

So please check each configuration of each switch of each esxi.
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the vm which i migrated within the cluster, migrate to another host in the same cluster
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Host being in the same cluster does not insure they are configure the same way, so please check the network configuration of each esxi host
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Can you check the IP configuration on the host? The gateway, mask...

Is there any other VM on the host?
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yes, there are some other vm on the reported host.
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Thank you. Are they ok? Pinging, RDP...
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the other vm looks fine 
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meanwhile, i found below event flooding my log as per below: can anyone tell what is about:
2020-04-03T04:03:41.263Z cpu45:24942561)WARNING: NetPort: 1934: failed to disable port 0x100000e7 on DvsPortset-1: Busy
2020-04-03T04:03:41.263Z cpu45:24942561)netschedHClk: NetSchedHClkPortQuiesce:4980: vmnic5: received a force quiesce for port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.263Z cpu45:24942561)netschedHClk: NetSchedHClkHashQuiesceHierarchyIter:396: vmnic5: dropped 13 pkts from queue netsched.pools.persist.default while quiescing port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.263Z cpu45:24942561)netschedHClk: NetSchedHClkHashQuiesceHierarchyIter:396: vmnic5: dropped 432 pkts from queue netsched.pools.vm.268435687 while quiescing port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.264Z cpu45:24942561)NetPort: 1881: disabled port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.268Z cpu45:24942561)Vmxnet3: 17295: Disable Rx queuing; queue size 1024 is larger than Vmxnet3RxQueueLimit limit of 64.
2020-04-03T04:03:41.268Z cpu45:24942561)Vmxnet3: 17653: Using default queue delivery for vmxnet3 for port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.268Z cpu45:24942561)NetPort: 3208: resuming traffic on DV port 440
2020-04-03T04:03:41.268Z cpu45:24942561)Team.etherswitch: TeamESPolicySet:5942: Port 0x100000e7 frp numUplinks 1 active 1(max 1) standby 0
2020-04-03T04:03:41.268Z cpu45:24942561)Team.etherswitch: TeamESPolicySet:5950: Update: Port 0x100000e7 frp numUplinks 1 active 1(max 1) standby 0
2020-04-03T04:03:41.268Z cpu45:24942561)NetPort: 1662: enabled port 0x100000e7 with mac 00:40:46:8b:5b:d4
2020-04-03T04:03:41.271Z cpu42:24942561)NetPort: 1881: disabled port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.301Z cpu42:24942561)Vmxnet3: 17295: Disable Rx queuing; queue size 1024 is larger than Vmxnet3RxQueueLimit limit of 64.
2020-04-03T04:03:41.301Z cpu42:24942561)Vmxnet3: 17653: Using default queue delivery for vmxnet3 for port 0x100000e7
2020-04-03T04:03:41.301Z cpu42:24942561)NetPort: 3208: resuming traffic on DV port 440
2020-04-03T04:03:41.301Z cpu42:24942561)Team.etherswitch: TeamESPolicySet:5942: Port 0x100000e7 frp numUplinks 1 active 1(max 1) standby 0
2020-04-03T04:03:41.301Z cpu42:24942561)Team.etherswitch: TeamESPolicySet:5950: Update: Port 0x100000e7 frp numUplinks 1 active 1(max 1) standby 0
2020-04-03T04:03:41.301Z cpu42:24942561)NetPort: 1662: enabled port 0x100000e7 with mac 00:50:56:7b:3b:c4


Hello There

What ESXi version do you have?
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2038301
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we having vcenter 6.7 version
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i saw related link as per below, but it does not update with the actual resolution

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/553243
Louis LIETAER

Sorry to insist, have you check the vswitch configuration of your esxi(s) ?
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Please brief what need to be check at vswitch level. please update further
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what are the settings for the switch? Is it using a NIC that has a network cable attached?
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virtual switch connected to physical Uplinks connected with cable
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anyone can update me about the given esxi event log above here
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Louis LIETAER

You can have a quick look at portGroup witch vm is attached to (of course)
Hello There

He told us in previous posts that there are more VMs on the host and they are fine. I am not sure it's in the vSwitch.

I checked known networking issues for 6.7. One of them is related to Intel Fortville NICs X710, XL710, and XXV710.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-67-release-notes.html#knownissues

Also, a similar issue is described here but it's related to vSphere 6.5. The log showed "vmnicx: dropped ___ pkts from queue" and "failed to disable port ___ on DvsPortset-0: Busy" events and the "only way to recover the VM networking was to vMotion to a different host". Sounds familiar? In this case it was a driver issue.
https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P0000490WHASA2/re-intel-x710-on-huawei-servermalicious-driver-detection-appear-in-the-log?language=en_US
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Hi before investigating further, I really want to have vswitch configuration analysis, if not possible issues are infinite.
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Hi all, dvs swicth has been created and assigned to all hosting server in the cluster. The status is connected. and found the few server in the assigned dvs lan able to ping now