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  • 1.  White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 02:51 PM

    So I'm looking at the port groups on a VDS and see that the lights next to the port groups are either green or white.  Most are green, but some are white even though the physical switches are up and the port group is functioning without issue.  Any thoughts?



  • 2.  RE: White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 03:01 PM

    Are some of your NICs set to standby instead of everything running Active/Active?



  • 3.  RE: White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 05:27 PM

    Nope- they are all active.



  • 4.  RE: White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 05:42 PM

    Are the VMs associated with those 'white port' powered on?



  • 5.  RE: White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 05:58 PM

    No VMs are associated, it is a Service Console port group. 



  • 6.  RE: White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 06:18 PM

    What functions are running on these service console ports? I have always assumed that when the port is white there is no traffic either the in tha case of a VM it is down or that there is no traffic -



  • 7.  RE: White vs. Green Ports on Distributed Switch

    Posted Apr 22, 2015 06:44 PM

    It was purely used for Management/ vCenter access.  I was connected to the vCenter console and not directly to the ESXi host so that shouldn't be an issue.