LACP NICs down after ESXi host reboot
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LACP NICs down after ESXi host reboot

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Article ID: 317997

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

  • LACP NICs are down after reboot ESXi host running ESXi 6.7 U2
  • LACP ports on physical switch are blocked
  • Hosts using LAG for management cannot be managed anymore after host reboot.
  • Ports used for LACP are blocked on physical switch:
Example of port status of physical switch after host reboot:

1/1 Active Trk55 Up Yes Success 0 616
1/2 Active Trk55 Up Yes Success 0 616
1/3 Active Trk55 Up Yes Success 0 616
1/7 Active Trk54 Up Yes Success 0 615
...
2/11 Active Trk56 Blocked Yes Failure 0 617
2/12 Active Trk56 Blocked Yes Failure 0 617
...
2/1 Active Trk55 Up Yes Success 0 616
2/2 Active Trk55 Up Yes Success 0 616
2/3 Active Trk55 Up Yes Success 0 616
...

Example of NIC status after host reboot:

esxcli network nic list

vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 Down 1000 Full 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000ec5 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 1734 11ce Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 Down 0 Half 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000ec5 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 1734 11ce Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic2 0000:3d:00.0 Down 0 Half 1500 i40en 1.3.1 3.33 0x800010ef 255.65535.255 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 37d1 1734 1230 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE
vmnic3 0000:3d:00.1 Up 1000 Full 1500 i40en 1.3.1 3.33 0x800010ef 255.65535.255 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 37d1 1734 1230 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE
vmnic4 0000:3d:00.2 Up 1000 Full 1500 i40en 1.3.1 3.33 0x800010ef 255.65535.255 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 37d1 1734 1230 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE
vmnic5 0000:3d:00.3 Down 0 Half 1500 i40en 1.3.1 3.33 0x800010ef 255.65535.255 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 37d1 1734 1230 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE
vmnic6 0000:18:00.0 Down 0 Half 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000ee3 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 8086 00a1 Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
vmnic7 0000:18:00.1 Up 1000 Full 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000ee3 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 8086 00a1 Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
vmnic8 0000:18:00.2 Down 0 Half 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000ee3 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 8086 00a1 Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
vmnic9 0000:18:00.3 Up 1000 Full 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000ee3 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 8086 00a1 Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
vmnic10 0000:d8:00.0 Down 0 Half 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000f06 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 8086 00a2 Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2
vmnic11 0000:d8:00.1 Down 0 Half 1500 igbn 0.1.1.0 0x80000f06 ##:##:##:##:##:## 8086 1521 8086 00a2 Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2

esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware lacp config get

dvSwitchProd  lag1      232217653  vmnic2,vmnic1,vmnic8,vmnic6,vmnic5,vmnic0  true     Active  Src and dst ip

esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware lacp stats get

DVSwitch        LAG ID         NIC     Rx Errors  Rx LACPDUs  Tx Errors  Tx LACPDUs
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
dvSwitchProd  232217653  vmnic8          0           4          0           5
dvSwitchProd  232217653  vmnic1          0           4          0           5
dvSwitchProd  232217653  vmnic6          0           3          0           5
dvSwitchProd  232217653  vmnic2          0           4          0           5
dvSwitchProd  232217653  vmnic5          0           3          0           5
dvSwitchProd  232217653  vmnic0          0          12          0          13



Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7

Cause

This issue is caused due to LACPDU without SYNC flags.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in VMware ESXi 6.7 P02 , release name ESXi670-20200400

Workaround:
To workaround this issue re-enable all affected NICs on the ESXi host.

Example:
esxcli network nic down -n vmnic0
esxcli network nic up -n vmnic0

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