Hi everybody,
We have experienced an issue that one NiC of ESXi lose connection(vmnic6) after reboot by upgrade BIOS Firmware. below is vswich and nic info and capature package when VM netwok lose.
vmnic5 and vmnci6 was binding together, the VM portgroup of vmnic5 was normall . however vmnic6 was lost connetciton.,but uplink and statues was seems like normal.
network team advice that check vSwith and host .
I woner to know if problem occur in phycisal Switch or related with ESXi host ?
Thanks for your reply in advance!
| Host | Network Device | Driver | Speed | Duplex | MAC | Switch |
| hqspse-esx5-d05.hqs.abc | vmnic5 | bnx2 | 1,000 | True | 9c:b6:54:0e:e1:b4 | vSwitch1 |
| hqspse-esx5-d05.hqs.abc | vmnic6 | bnx2 | 1,000 | True | 9c:b6:54:0e:e1:76 | vSwitch1 |
| Host | Switch | Promiscuous Mode | Mac Changes | Forged Transmits | Traffic Shaping | Policy | Reverse Policy | Notify Switch | Rolling Order |
| hqspse-esx5-d05.hqs.abc | vSwitch0 | False | False | False | False | loadbalance_srcid | True | True | True |
| hqspse-esx5-d05.hqs.abc | vSwitch1 | False | False | False | False | loadbalance_srcid | True | True | True |