Patrick, you are right, the problem was in the vNIC.
I re-configured the connectivity as follows:
1. I placed the SRS and the TS on the original vSwitch (vSwitch0)
2. I connected vmxnet3s0 (vNIC of type vmxnet3) to vSwitch0 and carried out
the necessary Solaris-side re-config (created /etc/hostname.vmxnet3s0,
removed /etc/hostname.e1000g0, unplumbed e1000g0 and rebooted)
3. From the SunRay, I was able to launch uttsc successfully.
Cheers,
Etienne
From: sunray-users-boun...@filibeto.org
[mailto:sunray-users-boun...@filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: 11 April 2010 23:17
To: SunRay-Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] uttsc crashes the network interface when
connecting to WS2K8 SP1 TS
thank you for your detailed problem solution!
so it sounds the problem is somewhere in the nic.
Have you tried just using the vmxnet3 interface aswell?
regards,
Patrick
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Ing. Etienne V. Depasquale ed...@ieee.org
wrote:
I can now run uttsc from a Sun Ray on my virtualised Solaris Sun Ray Server,
to a WS2K8 TS.
These are the steps I took:
1. I created a new vSwitch (vSwitch1) and connected the WS2K8 TS to
vSwitch1.
2. I added a second network adapter to the Solaris SRS. The type of the
adapter was vmxnet3 (as opposed to the first adapter, which is of the e1000
kind). I connected vmxnet3 to vSwitch1.
3. I plumbed the new interface on Solaris and added an IP address. I set the
Solaris host to forward packets using ndd /dev/ip ip_forwarding 1. This
step was carried out in anticipation of the requirement to forward packets
across the SRS between the Sun Ray and the TS.
4. Finally, I re-configured the IP addressing of the WS2K8's network adapter
to point to the SRS's new interface's IP address as its default gateway.
From the Sun Ray, I was then able to execute uttsc WS2K8 TS.
Should I find some time, I'll try and isolate the cause of the original
fault as this scenario introduced a new vNIC type on the SRS and it also
re-routed the flow of packets between the Sun Ray and the TS.
Cheers,
Etienne
Hello Patrick,
Thank you for the confirmation.
I have tried to use the virtualised Solaris Sun Ray server (VMware ESXi 4.0
VM) to launch uttsc aimed at Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 SP1 and Windows
Server 2008 SP2 terminal servers, both of which were themselves VMware ESXi
4.0 VMs. In both cases, i/o through the Solariss vNIC was interrupted. In
the case of the 2003 VM, I was able to log in but i/o ceased shortly after.
In the case of the 2008 VM, i/o terminates abruptly after the issue of the
uttsc command.
I can add that the virtualised Solaris SRS runs uttsc well when the command
is issued against a physical SBS 2003 and a Citrix VM running Windows 2003
x64 R2 SP2.
I would not like to lose PC/SC-lite support as the smart cards are important
to my application. Would you know about OpenSolaris use as the Sun Ray
server in this same context of VMware?
Failing this, I will use Citrixs XenServer 5.5, as I have an existing Sun
Ray installation in productive use based on XenServer VMs for both the SRS
and the TS.
Cheers,
Etienne
From: Patrick [mailto:3corne...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 April 2010 10:35
To: Ing. Etienne V. Depasquale
Subject: Re: uttsc crashes the network interface when connecting to WS2K8
SP1 TS
Hi Etienne,
I've seen similiar behaviour running a virtualized Solaris server connecting
to vmware view vm's!
I did a lot of testing with different versions of Sunray server software..
agents installed on the view vm but i could replicate the problem everytime
with the view agent being on the XP vm's.
Connecting to windows 2003 from the virtual solaris box worked fine..
connecting to view vm's shutdown the Solaris network adapter; similar to
your problem description. I've worked arround this by implementing a
physical solaris box; this runs fine now.
Although you probably don't want to go back to bare metal; maybe you could
switch to suse or redhat sunray servers although these lack some
functionality (e.g pc/sc).
let us know now it goes; maybe James's pointer works for you aswell.
patrick
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Ing. Etienne V. Depasquale ed...@ieee.org
wrote:
Patrick, I'm sending this directly to you and copying to the list as I am
not receiving mails from the list except the daily compilations.
Yes, my Sunray server is running as a guest on VMware ESXi 4.0.
Have you experienced this same issue?
BTW, updating to SP2 did not seem to change the behaviour. The e1000g0
interface on the SRS interrupted i/o immediately after issuing uttsc aimed
at the WS2K8 SP2 server.
Cheers,
Etienne
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