Dr.Stephenson
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- May 31, 2016
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I have a single vSphere 4 host (HP server with 12 cores and 90GiB RAM) connected to FreeNAS 9.10 (NFS) on a Dell server with 12 cores and 64GiB RAM. There are six disks - 2 TiB each - plus the thumb drive that holds the FN system. I run 4 10/100 NICs - physical and virtual - and the virtual machine network and the management network are on the same IP block (that could be an issue but I don't know how to get around it). The 4 NICs should be able to carry the 100MiB traffic, though. (FYI, at the moment there are 13 VMs on the FN, all but 2 Win 7 machines... the other two are: 1 Linux for vulnerability testing and 1 Server 2008 for the vCenter).
The problem is that the FN will lose communication with the VMWare randomly and without any consistent (apparently) reason. I have to restart the VMWare management network and then all is well for anywhere from a couple of minutes to a couple of hours.
This is such a small system that, although I have a vCenter server, I am not doing anything exotic enough so that it really matters. I have looked for IP conflicts - all of my IPs are static - and have found none. I have combed the Internet - including here - without luck. So, apparently I am the only one in the world with this problem, but it is a real irritant, especially when building VMs.
Thoughts, anyone?
The problem is that the FN will lose communication with the VMWare randomly and without any consistent (apparently) reason. I have to restart the VMWare management network and then all is well for anywhere from a couple of minutes to a couple of hours.
This is such a small system that, although I have a vCenter server, I am not doing anything exotic enough so that it really matters. I have looked for IP conflicts - all of my IPs are static - and have found none. I have combed the Internet - including here - without luck. So, apparently I am the only one in the world with this problem, but it is a real irritant, especially when building VMs.
Thoughts, anyone?