03-12-2010 03:25 AM - edited 03-01-2019 09:37 AM
Anyone know how to present more than 2 vNICs with the new Palo VIC? Tried adding eth2 and eth3 but they show up as down inside ESX. Also created a dynamic vNIC policy with 6 vNICs but then no vmnics show up in ESX.
03-12-2010 10:46 AM
Make sure your adapter is running the latest firmware version (1.1-1J or 1L). Dynamic vnics are not vmnics, they're meant to be used for VN-Link in Hardware. Dynamic vnics are used by VMs that join port-groups in the DVS instantied by UCSM inside vCenter Server.
Your regular UCS vnics (non dynamic) will be seen by ESX as vmnics:
[root@localhost ~]# esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 08:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:58:10:af 1500 Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet NIC
vmnic1 09:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:58:10:cf 1500 Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet NIC
vmnic2 0a:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:58:10:2e 1500 Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet NIC
vmnic3 0b:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:58:10:3e 1500 Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet NIC
[root@localhost ~]#
Dynamic vnics have placeholders on the PCI bus:
[root@localhost ~]# lspci | egrep -i "cisco.*pass"
0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
0d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
0f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
11:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
12:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
16:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
17:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
19:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
1a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
1b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Cisco Systems Inc 10G Ethernet pass-thru NIC (rev a2)
[root@localhost ~]#
03-13-2010 01:07 PM
thank you, that was a lot easier than what I was trying to make it. I see 4 vmincs now
vmnic0 0000:08:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:0c:95:af 1500 Cisco Systems Inc VIC Ethernet NIC
vmnic1 0000:09:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:0c:95:bf 1500 Cisco Systems Inc VIC Ethernet NIC
vmnic2 0000:0a:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:0c:95:ae 1500 Cisco Systems Inc VIC Ethernet NIC
vmnic3 0000:0b:00.00 enic Up 10000Mbps Full 00:25:b5:0c:95:be 1500 Cisco Systems Inc VIC Ethernet NIC
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