LISTEN status of TCP 8000 is not displayed with the "localcli network ip connection" command.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symptoms:
Customer checked whether the TCP 8000 Port of ESXi is LISTEN in the customer's monitoring job, But suddenly it is failed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0

Cause

Customer added new vmk using vmotion netstack.

This is normal behavior.

 

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use netstack=defaulttcpipstack

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  Proto  Recv Q  Send Q  Local Address                   Foreign Address       State        World ID  CC Algo  World Name

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  tcp         0       0  :::8000                         :::0                  LISTEN          66319  newreno  vmotionServer

 

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use netstack=vmotion

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  not disaplayed

 

In that case, confirmation with vsish is necessary.

 

/> ls /net/tcpip/instances/vmotion/connections/tcp/

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