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Jake_Robinson_1's avatar
Jake_Robinson_1
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Feb 24, 2012

No traffic on VE after updating ESXi

I have several LTM VE 10.2 VMs running in my cluster. After upgrading ESXi to 5.0 the LTMs will not pass any traffic if on those hosts. I hypothesize it is the VMXNET3 driver on the LTM VEs does not w...
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Paul_Pindell's avatar
Paul_Pindell
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Feb 25, 2012
Jake,

Your hunch was right. There are differences in the VMXNET3 between vSphere 4.x and 5. The VE 10.2.2 is the first version that supports the updated VMXNET3 spec. If you still have a 4.x host vMotion the VE to it, perform the upgrade to at least 10.2.2, and then you will be able to migrate the VE back to a ESXi 5 host.

 

Paul