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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Troubleshooting a virtual network

Every administrator around the world may have problems with the network connection, and the first action to begin the TRBL process is the use of the ping command. Yes, an easy ping can help you, but you have to ping from all directions: ESXi to vCSA and vCSA to ESXi. A typical possible TRBL scenario is when the network is misconfigured, the VLAN is not set up correctly, NIC teaming is not configured correctly, a port on a switch may be down, or there is a hardware problem with a VMNIC or with a physical switch.

The following CLIs can help you identify the problem:

  • esxcfg-vswitch
  • esxcfg-vmknic
  • esxcli network
  • esxcfg-nics

In TRBL you must, of course, understand what vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) and vSphere ...

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