ESX Networking Toolkit Demo

Here is a tool we are working on. Hopefully this tool will help VI admins with their daily work. It is a VA and will register with VC as an extension. It operates at data center level, basically it checks various network configurations and connectivity inside a host and across hosts. The checks done currently are:
1. Connectivity within same portgroup, also portgroups on same vSwitch with same VLAN ID.
2. VLAN ID setting (4095 is considered dangerous and 1 is a possible native VLAN ID in cisco world)
3. VM vNIC connectivity check
4. VM vNIC MTU check to ensure it is less than or equal to vSwitch MTU (requires VMware tools)
5. NIC teaming check
6. connectivity check of portgroups with same name on different hosts
7. End to end jumbo frame support check.
Revised version preliminary vDS support added. Any comments are welcome!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ESX
• Networking
• Toolkit
• Demo

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