Author: vcdx133

Chief Enterprise Architect and Strategist, 4xVCDX#133, NPX#8, DECM-EA.

VMworld US 2014 – 10th Annual TAM Day

I attended TAM day yesterday which was a great event.  The keynote was fantastic with VMware President and COO, Carl Eschenbach, and the highlight of the day was the “Ask an Expert” lunch, where 100+ experts from all silos of VMware were available for discussions over lunch.

This is my second TAM day and I must say it just gets better and better every year with 1000+ TAM customers attending the event.  So if you are a serious VMware customer and you want to maximise and leverage your VMware investment, then consider joining the TAM program.

The clock is ticking, register for VMworld EU 2014, plan your travel and reserve your sessions:

HS22V ESXi 5.5 Upgrade 10Gb Network Problem

This post is applicable to customers using IBM BladeCenter HS22 and HS22V blades with the Emulex 10Gb adapter cards that connect to the IBM 10Gb Virtual Fabric Switch (formerly BNT).

Problem:

  1. HS22V blade running ESXi 5.1
  2. Mount ESXi 5.5 Update 1 Driver Rollup 2 ISO image
  3. Upgrade ESXi 5.1 to 5.5
  4. Reboot the blade
  5. All networking on the 10Gb vmnic appears OK (module loads, 10Gb links come up, CDP works, vSwitches report working uplinks), but traffic is not carried.  vmkping from any VMkernel interfaces bound to the Emulex adapter will fail, you can only ping yourself.
  6. Run the command “esxcli software vib list | grep elxnet” and verify that the “elxnet” driver version is 10.0.783.13.
  7. Run the command “esxcli network nic list” and verify that the 10Gb vmnics use the driver “elxnet” (new native driver).

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