By Carlo Costanzo, Posted in Infrastructure, Support
The Scene
Recently, we were working with a client who was experiencing packet loss on some network adapters on their systems. The ESXi host was set up in a pretty standard configuration of a vSwitch with two physical NICs connected to it. We’d done a lot of troubleshooting up to this point and wanted to start correlating Virtual Machines to pNICs.
The NIC teaming on the vSwitch was set up as a default active/active scenario and was using the route by origin method. This means that when a VM powers u... read more.