VMware - Broadcom 1000Gbps NIC does not link at 100Mbps to a Cisco switch port
- by Spirit
Today we've stumbled on a very awkward situation with our VMWare Server.
The server is with ESX 3.5 that has a 1Gbps NIC.
We bought a brand new managed Cisco Linksys switch with 10/100Mbps interface ports but when we plugged the cable in one of the ports the link simply does not wanted to activate :S...
Does anyone with more VMware experience have ever had similar problem? From what I know is that 1Gbps NICs are backwards compatible with 100Mbps switches.
This is what we've tryed so far but with no success:
Tryed: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004089
Tryed to modify the /etc/modules.conf folowing the guide from this article
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=813
After the changes I have restarted the networking services using # service network restart, # service mgmt-vmware restart and # service vmware-vpxa restart
It seems that no matter how many times, or whatever approach/method (GUI or Shell) we try to change the speed and duplex of the network adapter and to force it to 100mbps it only accepts 1Gbps ..
I am starting to go nuts :@