Uplink redundancy restored on DVPorts events for specific virtual machine Dvports

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• You observe these events logged in vCenter Server:
  
  Uplink redundancy restored on DVPorts: "1218/77 10 0c 50 7d ea 84 49-35 a7 65 a7 7a b8 42 51". Physical NIC vmnic9 is up.
  
  
• The ESXi/ESX host's /var/log/messages log file contains entries similar to:
  
  [esx.clear.net.dvport.redundancy.restored] Uplink redundancy restored on DVPorts: "12182/77 10 0c 50 7d ea 84 49-35 a7 65 a7 7a b8 42 51". Physical NIC vmnic9 is up.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 4.1.x
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Embedded
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Installable
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded
VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x

Resolution

This message indicates that a virtual machine has come alive on a NIC, which can happen after a virtual machine is powered on, restarted, a vMotion has been performed, or when virtual machine snapshot is created.

You can safely ignore this message "Uplink redundancy restored on DVPorts: "1218/77 10 0c 50 7d ea 84 49-35 a7 65 a7 7a b8 42 51".

This should not be confused with the message Uplink redundancy restored on dvPorts: "dvPort1". Physical NIC vmnic1 is up, which indicates that a link is UP after a Down event. For more information, see dvPort uplink redundancy restored (1020376).

Additional Information

dvPort uplink redundancy restored