Redhat Enterprise Virtulization 3.1 Problem with VM Network (nic) Interface
Respected Sir/Madam
We have the following configuration as below
1 ) Redhat Enterprise Virtulization Manager 3.1.4
2) Redhat Enterprise Virtulization Hypervisor 6.3
Yesterday i have faced the probelm regarding the network on one of the VM running on my Hypervisor
we have 2 VM on same RHEV Hypervisor (6.3)
Name of the VM
1) njbrok
2) njtran
Both are running in production environment
and we cannot bare downtime on connectivity loss for both of the vm
The probelm is njtran VM's getting packet loss to it virtionet interface (nic) so the remote database server are getting problem with the connectivity to the njtran VM
And the njbrok vm which is running on the same Hypervisor does not have any connectivity or packet loss issue
So after much effort and after spending lot of time
i have solved the problem by making the VM njtran poweroff and remove the nic interface and re-added the interface agian and the problem got solved
But still i am not getting why this problem arise
and we cannot bare again if the same problem arise in the future
and if it arise how to solved it without making the production server down
Please respond as soon as possible
Responses
Far fetched, but: Do you have a test/development rhev setup? If you have multiple rhev environment, be aware that the mac-adress-pool by default is the same in all environments. And if the same mac-address get assigned to multiple vm's you might experience something like you describe. I'm talking from experience here....
/Brian
Good recommendation Brian. I had not considered that the MAC Address pool would be similar. I suppose even if the algorithm to create a new pool used the "base" of the system's actual MAC address, there would still be duplication.
Pratik - In addition, if you have a smart network group, they should be able to deduce whether a mac address is registered with multiple physical ports (I believe the CAM tables also associate the MAC address to an IP address - so that should be another place to look).
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