With the help of vmkping I ping other nodes on the network vmnet16 with success. I checked that all the IP addresses and network masks used are correct. 'Promiscuous' mode and forged passes enabled on all Port vSwitch groups (activating or turning off these features makes no difference) vmk0 used for management on vSwitch0 and vmk1 for iSCSI on vSwitch1 vSwitch1 uses vmnic2 on network virtual vmnet18 vSwitch0 use vmnic0 & 1 vmnet16 of virtual network in a pair of active / standby all use the e1000 NIC hardware virtual, but also tried vmxnet3 NIC with no difference Build-3770994 (fully updated from this announcement)ĮSXi v6.0.0 (Build 3825889, completely updated from this announcement) OS - kernel Linux 64 - bit w/3.19.0-32-generic Linux Mint 17.3 (fully updated from this announcement) That's why I post here with the hope that if I made a mistake that maybe someone else can point out he me. All my troubleshooting suggests a problem with nested ESXi hosts that may be a bug, but I want to assure you that I did everything properly first. I have a lab environment virtual running in VMware Workstation for Linux v12, and my ESXi hosts do not work correctly on one of the virtual networks. 6u2 ESXi host nested on VMware Workstation for Linux referee v12

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