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    Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

    pcoteQC
    pcoteQC Jul 2, 2010 6:23 AM

      Hi all,

       

      Here's my problem with Hyper-V:

       

      Don't ask me why, but today, some of my VM can't ping other VM on another host! The only change i've made is to install .Net Framework 4 on all VM.

       

      Here's the detail of my environnement:

      • 1 physical server with SCVMM 2008 R2
      • 3 physical host with Windows Server 2008 R2Core with Hyper-V and Failover cluster role
      • 10 VM (for now) that i ofen move from host to host for my test.
      • No Firewall activated
      • Integration service install on all VM
      • Some VM W2K3, others W2k8 R2
      • The problem is the same in Safe Mode with Networking

       

      Here's the detail of the problem:

       

      Some VM (5 have the problem) can't ping other VM on another host: So VM1 on host1 can't ping VM2 and VM3 on host2 BUT can ping VM4 on host2!! By this time, VM1 can ping all other VM on host1 and all other on host3. This behaviour is "unpredictable". Sometimes it's a VM from host3 who have problem with VM on host1..

      I solve the problem by different way: assigning static MAC adress, deleting network card on VM and create new one, create legacy acrd instead of network card, deleting all entry in the registry from old card, etc.

      Now I have two VM where I already try all thoses solutions without succes!

      It's not a VLAN problem as when a VM can't ping another one, it can ping some other in the same VLAN and across others VLAN...

       

      Here's another test i've made: If i take VM1 who's in problem (VM1 on Host1 can't ping VM2 on Host2) and VM3 who's OK. I shut those two VMs, and switch the MAC adresse and IP  between the VMS, VM1 start to work OK and VM3 is in problem. So i think it's a MAC problem! But if i try to put different static MAC to all my VM i still have the problem.

      Another information: all my physical host are SUN Fire x4170 with 4 Intel Network cards. The first NIC is reserved for manageemnt and the other tree are in Teaming (command line :PROSetCL.exe Team_Create 1,3,4 TeamVM VMLB) for Virtual Machine Load Balancing. No special configuration on the Cisco switch.

      Someone already see that?

       

      Thanks

      Patrick

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