Hi,
I have 4 nics in the LAN network. I successfully tested the failure of one or more of them (by shutting down the ports on the physical switch). since the nic teaming is set, no lost of even a ping in these cases.
but if I make to fail them all, the fallback becomes useless. the virtual machines that reside on this esx just aren't accessible anymore. the windows doesn't see any network card failure (or unplugged), the esx cluster doesn't take any action - the lan vswitch failure is no reason for HA actions.
so, how can you protect the virtual machines from network loss? is there any specific funcionality?
i forgot. the esx is part of a cluster whre drs and ha are enabled.