Just received some brand new HPE DL380 Gen10 servers. Each server comes with two separate nics, each with two 10Gbe ports. Let's call them NIC1 and NIC2
I ran a DAC cable from NIC1 on the server to my Juniper switch. I ran a second DAC cable from NIC2 to my Juniper switch. If I have a nic failure then I will not lose access to my management network
Installed ESXi 6.5 U1, and went to setup the management network. Under network adapters I chose the two nics, added an IP address, mask, gateway, and DNS information and thought I was set
I started pinging the management IP address from my workstation and it would not ping. I restarted the host and during startup I received several pings back but once fully started the pings stopped
After a lot of work I determined having two connections to two different nic cards is the issue. If I go to network setup again and only choose one nic, everything pings fine
Any ideas?