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indytoatl
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‎09-09-2016 04:18 AM

ARP cache on virtual switch

We have three separate VMware SQL 2016 AlwaysOn clusters running on vShere 5.1. We noticed on all three clusters whenever we'd fail over a Availability Group to a second node within the same VLAN and running

on the same ESX host, that the resources would not become available until a 15 minute time-out period. If we fail over the same AG group to a host in another building the resources are immediately available. 

This only happens on the same VLAN. So we opened a ticket with Microsoft and they ran a trace and stated the arp request is being sent out but no replies are being returned. Is this a vSphere issue?

Where in the process does VMware update the arp table?

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adamwiso
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‎09-13-2016 07:00 AM

Just to be clear, you are failing a resource to a secondary node on the same ESXi host?

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indytoatl
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‎09-13-2016 07:38 AM

Both VM servers just happen to be running on the same host at the moment. They will be separated later.

I ran across this article which sounds almost the same. As a DBA I can't see the vSwitch screen.

http://rickardnobel.se/vswitch-notify-switches-setting/

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