Why network connection of a RHEL guest running on VMware ESX 5.1 with VDS and vShield Endpoint and/or Trend Micro Deep Security lost ?

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Issue

  • Virtual machines (VMWARE vSphere) was network unresponsive, in message log we found entry that ethX interfrace was hang. tried to restart network service, this help for about 30 seconds and VM again was not accessible from network.
  • Network fails, attempt to remove then reattach vmxnet3 driver also fails. Rebooted server also fails. Same issue with e1000 nic. /var/log/messages shows the following:
kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (vmxnet3): transmit queue 0 timed out
kernel: eth0: tx hang
kernel: eth0: resettting
kernel: eth0: intr type 3, mode 0, 5 vectors allocated
kernel: Failed to activate dev eth0: error 1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.X
  • VMware ESX 5.1 using VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and co-existing with vShield Endpoint and/or Trend Micro Deep Security

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