HI .
I am setting up a home lab to build an NSX lab . I am currently running 3 Esxi hosts on VMware Workstation 11 . All the three esxi hosts are running 4 Ethernet adapters each on them .
To setup the VXlan setup for my home lab i have modified the .vmx file of the virtual machine and modified the device to vmxnet3 and it works .
ethernet1.connectionType = "custom"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet2.present = "TRUE"
ethernet2.vnet = "VMnet1"
ethernet2.connectionType = "custom"
ethernet2.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" --------------------- Changed to vmxnet3
VMxnet3 adapter type is not supported for VMware workstation and also one of my host has crashed multiple times with the below error message in the log file.
2015-08-02T13:37:48.254+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: Ethernet3 MAC Address: 00:0c:29:a4:7d:8c
2015-08-02T13:37:48.261+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet3 Driver Info: version = 16908544 gosBits = 2 gosType = 1, gosVer = 0, gosMisc = 0
2015-08-02T13:37:48.527+10:00| vcpu-5| I120: VMXNET3 hosted: Packet has no eop, scanned 1, tx ring size 512, txd valid 0.
2015-08-02T13:37:48.527+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: Ethernet3 MAC Address: 00:0c:29:a4:7d:8c
2015-08-02T13:37:48.536+10:00| vcpu-4| I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet3 Driver Info: version = 16908544 gosBits = 2 gosType = 1, gosVer = 0, gosMisc = 0
2015-08-02T13:37:51.436+10:00| vmx| I120: E1000: E1000 rx ring full, drain packets.
2015-08-02T13:37:53.636+10:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 1 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 2.
2015-08-02T13:37:55.565+10:00| vmx| I120: VMXVmdbCbVmVmxExecState: Exec state change requested to state poweredOff without reset, soft, softOptionTimeout: 20000000.
2015-08-02T13:37:55.565+10:00| vmx| I120: Stopping VCPU threads...
2015-08-02T13:37:56.567+10:00| svga| I120: SVGA thread is exiting
2015-08-02T13:37:56.571+10:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 1.
2015-08-02T13:37:56.575+10:00| mks| I120: GDI-Backend: stopped by HWinMux to do window composition.
2015-08-02T13:37:56.575+10:00| mks| I120: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 0.
2015-08-02T13:37:56.575+10:00| vmx| I120: MKS thread is stopped
Can someone guide me how to setup an NSX lab on VMware workstation and use 1600 MTU for VXlan traffic. Any help is much appreciated .