I have 3 adapters for the VMs, and two for management - network failover is set for link detection only, no load balancing, no notify switches, no failback.
vswitch0 is the service console, vswitch1 is the virtual machine port group. Don't know if that answers the trunking question or not. Kurt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com> Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 18:34 Subject: RE: The arrrgghhhness of it all... To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> I saw something very similar a while ago:) What's your esx vswitch and nic config and if you're using trunking, what switch and how's it configured? jlc -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: The arrrgghhhness of it all... I'm trying to install Win2k3 R2 SP2 in an ESX3.5 VM, from scratch. It's blowing up on it big time, and I am really unhappy with it right now. Sitrep: Install Disk1 (Win2k3 R2 SP2), reboot, then Disk2, then install the VMWare tools, reboot, then join doimain - no problem. Install first round of 90+ patches from the MSFT site, minus IE8 and the malicious software removal tool, and plus a few optional goodies, such as .NET framework updates, reboot - no problem Install the second round of 43 updates, and no more DNS name resolution. Error in the event log 11167 Dnsapi - I've looked at that, and several other eventlog entries that probably stem from that. (17 W32tm, 1010 MsGina, 1053 Userenv in particular) I've scratched the machine twice and started over, and it's the same each time. I can resolve NetBIOS names, but it barks on any FQDN. "Ping request could not find host ad.example.com. Please check the name and try again." EventID.net isn't much help, as I've tried everything on there I can see, and it doesn't resolve the issue. Anyone run into this? It's terribly weird... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
