Hi,
in my ESXi (4.1) setup i have 2 physical adapters in a NIC team connected to vSwitch0
on this vSwitch i have VM portgroup, and 3 VMkernel Ports
Virtual Machine Port Group (VM traffic)
vmk0 (management traffic)
vmk1 (vmotion traffic)
vmk2 (iSCSI traffic)
if both physical NIC's are connected everything works as expected.
When i disconnect vmnic0, my management console is no longer available from my laptop. I can however still reach all the VM's.
So somehow the vmk0 (and vmk1, vmk2) don't failover to the vmnic1 and are not available from the outside.
If i login to a VM running on this ESXi from there i can still connect to the vmk0 (which seems logical since all the traffic can be handled within vSwitch0).
Why do the vmk ports not use the failover of the nic team?
i have checked the settings over and over and I am almost sure they are correct.
Searching on internet i came across an article that mentions a bug whenever there are multiple vmkports on a single vswitch, where the vmkports will keep sending out data on the wrong interface.
Has anyone seen this before, and how can i fix this.