I have been beating my head against a wall for a few days now (on and off) and can't seem to get what I want working. I have a single GSM7224v1 with 5 VLAN's:
Now where my problem exists is I have an ESXi 5.1 host hanging off of port 24. I have the config in the switch to UNTAG VLAN 1 on port 24 but TAG VLAN's 2-5 on port 24. I can not, for the life of me, get the communication across that port. I have tried non-ESX hosts as well as ESX. I am an ESX administrator (as well as network admin) by day so I know the ESX config is good...I am just having a rough time with the Netgear config. Below is the full config from the device so hopefully you can lend me a hand:
show running-config !Current Configuration: ! !System Description "GSM7224 L2 Managed Gigabit Switch" !System Description 6.2.0.14 ! set prompt "MEADOWHOUSE-SWITCH" telnetcon timeout 30 telnetcon maxsessions 2 terminal length 0 network protocol none network parameters 192.168.254.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.254.254 network mgmt_vlan 3 vlan database vlan 2 vlan name 2 255 Network vlan 3 vlan name 3 254 Network vlan 4 vlan name 4 WAN vlan 5 vlan name 5 DMZ exit
spanning-tree configuration name 00-22-3F-DE-0F-42 snmp-server sysname "MEADOWHOUSE-SWITCH" snmp-server location "Basement" snmp-server contact "TH" no snmp-server community mode public no snmp-server community mode private no snmp-server community mode public@1 snmp-server community public@2 snmp-server community public@3 snmp-server community public@4 snmp-server community public@5 ip domain-name MEADOWHOUSE ip name-server 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 interface 0/1 vlan pvid 3 vlan participation exclude 1 vlan participation exclude 2 vlan participation include 3 vlan participation exclude 4 vlan participation exclude 5 exit
I would say have a look at the STP settings on your ESX server, you ahve STP running on your switch, make sure you're running the same version (for this scenario, RSTP should be fine).
