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Test your ESXi network resiliency with ESXCLI

Ivo Beerens
Date : May 1, 2013
Categories : esxi ,networking ,vSphere
Tags : esxi-2 ,networking ,vSphere

After configuring the network portion for your ESXi servers you need to test if the redundancy is working as accepted. From the ESXi layer you can bringing down/up one or more uplinks to test the network resilience. No longer you need to pull out the UTP cables. Since ESXi5 this can be done by using …

Configure the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) in vSphere 5

Ivo Beerens
Date : May 16, 2012
Categories : networking ,vSphere5
Tags : networking ,vSphere5

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)is a vendor-neutral open standard discovery protocol that is supported by multiple vendors such as Cisco, HP and Juniper for example. LLDP displays for example on what network switch and port the NIC in the ESXi hosts is connected. Prior VMware vSphere 5 only …