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Re: Physical NIC vmnic8 linkstate is down
We upgraded VeeamOne to v12, and this issue seems to be much worse than in 11a.
Previously if we "Resolved" an alarm, it stayed resolved, at least until the next reboot.
Now if we resolve, it comes back in a few minutes.
Would prefer not to exclude entire hosts, since it can be a useful alarm for the ports actually used.
Am not going to set up a ton of custom alarms across multiple sites, hosts, hardware and network configs.
Maybe if we disabled the ports completely in the BIOS they would not be visible to VMware and thus VeeamOne.
The ability to exclude Nics in individual hosts would be perfect, but without that, it's likely we exclude whole hosts and miss this alarm on them.
Previously if we "Resolved" an alarm, it stayed resolved, at least until the next reboot.
Now if we resolve, it comes back in a few minutes.
Would prefer not to exclude entire hosts, since it can be a useful alarm for the ports actually used.
Am not going to set up a ton of custom alarms across multiple sites, hosts, hardware and network configs.
Maybe if we disabled the ports completely in the BIOS they would not be visible to VMware and thus VeeamOne.
The ability to exclude Nics in individual hosts would be perfect, but without that, it's likely we exclude whole hosts and miss this alarm on them.
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Re: Physical NIC vmnic8 linkstate is down
Hello,
If the alarm had another behavior in v11a, I would recommend opening a support ticket and ask why is that. There is no trigger in time on the alarm that's true.
I do not think you need a ton of Custom alarms, how many different ESXi you have with different NICs down? That is a bit odd on configurations I saw on datacenters, hardware tend to be the same, with similar NIC numbers, and usually Networking team connect the same ports, like SAN A to PORT3 on all ESXi, SAN B PORT4, and those to different switches etc.
I would not recommend disabling anything in BIOS, that would cause troubles in the future to anyone trying to debug a physical connection to a port and why is not blinking, might lead to think is hardware failure.
I think you can create a few Business views, for example:
- ESXi-vNIC2
- ESXi-vNIC3
- ESXI-vNIC4
You get the idea, this will give you between 2 to 6 categories, I do not expect seeing Hosts with more NICs.
Then you clone the vNIC alarm, in exclusions you exclude the vNIC2, and in assigments you assign it to the Business View ESXi-vNIC2. This should not take much time, it scales as new hosts come into production, etc.
Hope it helps.
If the alarm had another behavior in v11a, I would recommend opening a support ticket and ask why is that. There is no trigger in time on the alarm that's true.
I do not think you need a ton of Custom alarms, how many different ESXi you have with different NICs down? That is a bit odd on configurations I saw on datacenters, hardware tend to be the same, with similar NIC numbers, and usually Networking team connect the same ports, like SAN A to PORT3 on all ESXi, SAN B PORT4, and those to different switches etc.
I would not recommend disabling anything in BIOS, that would cause troubles in the future to anyone trying to debug a physical connection to a port and why is not blinking, might lead to think is hardware failure.
I think you can create a few Business views, for example:
- ESXi-vNIC2
- ESXi-vNIC3
- ESXI-vNIC4
You get the idea, this will give you between 2 to 6 categories, I do not expect seeing Hosts with more NICs.
Then you clone the vNIC alarm, in exclusions you exclude the vNIC2, and in assigments you assign it to the Business View ESXi-vNIC2. This should not take much time, it scales as new hosts come into production, etc.
Hope it helps.
Jorge de la Cruz
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Re: Physical NIC vmnic8 linkstate is down
Hello,
Interesting solution provide here with business viens but could you explain it how to build it please ?
I try it today but doesn t find how to create the business view based on vnic and how to manage it then.
If you can explain step by step all your idea, I would appreciate Jorge.
Thanks
Interesting solution provide here with business viens but could you explain it how to build it please ?
I try it today but doesn t find how to create the business view based on vnic and how to manage it then.
If you can explain step by step all your idea, I would appreciate Jorge.
Thanks
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Re: Physical NIC vmnic8 linkstate is down
Is the expected behavior that these alarms are marked resolved yet they pop up again a few minutes later? Given that the workarounds don't scale for large environments with many hosts with different combinations of NICs in use, shouldn't the alarm go away for good (at least until a state change on the NIC is detected)?
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Re: Physical NIC vmnic8 linkstate is down
Hello Rahanoi,
Are these the same ports from the same ESXis? Would you mind creating a support ticket to investigate a bit more the behavior, and if something needs to be changed, we can add as FR moving forward.
Please let us know
Are these the same ports from the same ESXis? Would you mind creating a support ticket to investigate a bit more the behavior, and if something needs to be changed, we can add as FR moving forward.
Please let us know
Jorge de la Cruz
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Re: Physical NIC vmnic8 linkstate is down
Jorge, yes the alarm returns for the same vmnics 1-5 on the same host. I'll create a support ticket with details.
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