gusty bane
Hi,
Have any of you found out a way to make ifgroups working under vmware workstation pro ?
Whenever I attempt to map my cluster management lif to an ifgroup interface, I loose connectivity to my cluster.
I've attempted to follow some support answers on the website but answers seems to be more for ESXi or any other hypervisors.
small oasis
what type of ifgroup? single or multimode?
gusty bane
what type of ifgroup? single or multimode?
multimode, but I tried both tho
elder musk
Single mode should work.Multimode_lacp will 100% NOT work as it requires switch setup to work
I would think SINGLE mode and multimode might work but not with vlans. Only as access
gusty bane
I would think SINGLE mode and multimode might work but not with vlans. Only as ...
I tried single mode without vlans
apparently this is due to e1000 not accepting any traffic from an unidentified mac address
(the one generated by the ifgroup)
I couldn't find a working solution rn, sadly I wanted to learn abit more with ifgroups
elder musk
You may be able to tell esxi to modify the interface security to accept MAC. It may be defaulted to reject
gusty bane
You may be able to tell esxi to modify the interface security to accept MAC. It ...
I use vmware workstation pro
I couldn't find an option to allow promiscious mode
elder musk
I’ll see if I can check later
gusty bane
thanks !
small oasis
yeah you need to enable promiscuous mode. I thought this was in the docs to the simulator? But maybe only for ESXi.
For Workstation you have to edit the VMX file manually. The option is called ethernet0.noPromisc = "FALSE"
gusty bane
@small oasis does not seem to work, I create an ifgrp including e0c & e0d, both interfaces has the cmd above in the VMX file. the a0a ifgrp is then added in the Default broadcast-domain, I then tried to set the home-port of the cluster_mgmt lif to a0a
small oasis
mmhm... you could try to connect the ports to another VM runnig a Cisco Nexus NX-OS switch simulator (Nexus 9000v or something similar) that supports LACP...this will be a complicated setup though so you're on your own there
gusty bane
mmhm... you could try to connect the ports to another VM runnig a Cisco Nexus NX...
Well ig I'd better have fun without them then
Thanks still for the help !
@small oasis apparently there's a way to make the simuator work with virtualbox (and hope they make a doc about this, vmware kinda sucks since broadcom bought them)
will try
small oasis
<@189749672921792512> apparently there's a way to make the simuator work with vi...
well they made Workstation free, which is kinda nice since it works much better than VirtualBox
gusty bane
well they made Workstation free, which is kinda nice since it works much better ...
"free", I wouldn't call that free when you need to share your personal informations to get it. Plus even after creating an account I couldn't download the personal-use version because I didn't have any active contract, so my account wasn't verified
Found a guy on reddit who shared the official binary
When it's free, you're the product
uncut bison
I wonder if the ONTAP firewall may be a problem? Why would you map it to an ifgrp?
gusty bane
I wonder if the ONTAP firewall may be a problem? Why would you map it to an ifgr...
Oh didn't check that
Just for redundancy and learning purpose
uncut bison
Ah. Honestly redundancy isn't really needed becuase the LIF fails over automatically, but if it's down more than likely other things are down too. LIF failover makes more sense if you have HA or physical NICs for the Cluster Management LIF.
gusty bane
Ah. Honestly redundancy isn't really needed becuase the LIF fails over automatic...
Ah yea that's what I saw with the failover group
Well that was my usecase on my simulator but I know this is used to aggregate links, sharing load etc..
Thanks for your answer !