I am currently running five ESX servers on an HP Blade enclosure. I have created a virtual switch, which consists of two teamed physical NICs. I have created four port groups, on four different VLANs. The virtual machines I create on the ESX servers port group VLAN works fine, VMs on the other three do not (no network connectivity.) I have set the VLANs and port groups up correctly and suspect the Alcatel-Lucent switches.

All the documentation talks about Cisco switches it says Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) does not support Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) which I take it is Cisco talk for VLAN tagging? It then gives examples on how to get this to work by using "nonegotiate and on options to enable VLAN trunking unconditionally." Have set the switch ports to not have a default VLAN and enabled the VLANs on the ports, but no luck!

There is also the fact that the ESX servers are in a blade environment and go through the blades Ethernet blade switch.

Has anyone else managed to get this to work in an Alcatel environment or anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Andrew