excessive broadcast on E2510-24 switch

[mnisadmin]

Hi,

I have a procurve switch connected to DL380G6 servers which host ESXi on them.

The server has 4 NIC's and two of them are connected directly to the procurve switch for backup and vmotion.

I see excessive broadcase on these ports.

There are two VLAN's set up, please see attached. I am not sure about the setup as someone else did it.

The corporate network people tell me the switch is causing major traffic issues and is bradcasing in muticast, which I don't understand.

Can someone please guide me on what can I do to resolve this. Many thanks

[Matt Kunard]

It sounds like the two active NICs are bridging traffic.  Are these NICs in a team and if so, what type of team?  Based off the VLAN assignment I see in the doc you posted, both VLANs 5 and 8 are tagged on the server interfaces 13 and 17.  This may or may not be a valid switch configuration, it really depends on the server configuration.

Also, have you tried setting up the two switch interfaces in a trunk (link-aggregation) group?

[mnisadmin]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I am not aware on how to set up the two switchs interfaces in a trunk (link-aggregation) group.

Is it thru VCeneter ????? or is that thru the switch ????