Random and Selective ARP blindness in VMWare ESXi 4.1
- by Peter Grace
We have multiple VMWare ESX servers spread out amongst our company, doing various tasks. One particular ESXi host is exhibiting very peculiar behavior. We detect it when our monitoring system (Orion) notifies us that it can no longer ping the box.
Upon jumping on the local console of the guest in question, we see that it cannot ping any new…