https://community.hpe.com/t5/switches-hubs-and-modems/excessive-broadcasts-received-on-procurve-switch/m-p/4704052#M24206 Hi,<BR /><BR />I'd recommend setting up (static) LACP trunking on your links between the ESX servers and the switch.<BR />To do this on your 2510 use the command for:<BR /><BR />switch(config)# trunk PORT_NUMS trk1 LACP<BR /><BR />PORT_NUMS is a list of the ports for one trunk, e.g. 1,2<BR /><BR />and then just repeat for each trunk:<BR /><BR />switch(config)# trunk PORT_NUMS_2 trk2 LACP Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:02:11 GMT Mohammed Faiz 2010-10-25T07:02:11Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/switches-hubs-and-modems/excessive-broadcasts-received-on-procurve-switch/m-p/4704051#M24205 Hi,<BR /><BR />My setup looks like this<BR /><BR />Physical servers â DL 380 G6<BR /><BR />OS â ESXi 4.1.0 build 260247<BR /><BR />Storage â Clariion CX4<BR /><BR />Switch - Procurve 2510G-24 (J9279A). s/w version - Y.11.16 ROM - N.10.02<BR /><BR />Network â each ESXi server has 4 ports<BR /><BR />Two of them are connected to corporate LAN<BR />Rest two are connected to Procurve 2510G-24 (J9279A). IP address range of 192.168.X.X<BR /><BR />Guest VM â windows 2008 64 R2<BR />Each guest VM has two virtual NICS<BR />One â E1000 connected to corporate LAN (10.X.X.X IP address)<BR />Second â VMXNET3 connected to Procurve 2510G-24 (J9279A) IP address range of 192.168.X.X<BR /><BR />The problem â <BR />I see excessive broadcasts detectedâ ¦.on port which is the 192.168.X.X network.<BR />We have networker backup server which has 192.168 IP address and it tries to backup data from the guest OS and the backup fails.<BR />I have not created any teaming on EXSi hostsâ ¦..just plugged in two network cables from each server to the procurve switch. I am not sure if this is causing looping. <BR /><BR />On the guest OS, I see the following <BR /><BR />Event id 2012<BR />While transmitting or receiving data, the server encountered a network error. Occassional errors are expected, but large amounts of these indicate a possible error in your network configuration. The error status code is contained within the returned data (formatted as Words) and may point you towards the problem.<BR /><BR />Can someone please guide me on what could be the issue. Thanks Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:15:06 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/switches-hubs-and-modems/excessive-broadcasts-received-on-procurve-switch/m-p/4704051#M24205 donkarnash_1 2010-10-24T22:15:06Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/switches-hubs-and-modems/excessive-broadcasts-received-on-procurve-switch/m-p/4704052#M24206 Hi,<BR /><BR />I'd recommend setting up (static) LACP trunking on your links between the ESX servers and the switch.<BR />To do this on your 2510 use the command for:<BR /><BR />switch(config)# trunk PORT_NUMS trk1 LACP<BR /><BR />PORT_NUMS is a list of the ports for one trunk, e.g. 1,2<BR /><BR />and then just repeat for each trunk:<BR /><BR />switch(config)# trunk PORT_NUMS_2 trk2 LACP Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:02:11 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/switches-hubs-and-modems/excessive-broadcasts-received-on-procurve-switch/m-p/4704052#M24206 Mohammed Faiz 2010-10-25T07:02:11Z