End Host Exceptions
- Viktoryia Varapayeva (Deactivated)
In earlier releases, NetMRI did not detect and report neighbor relationships between switch trunk ports and non-trunked downstream switch ports. This could present issues for discovery and inventory of ESXi and Hyper-V VM host servers and any other end host neighbors of trunk ports. In Release 6.9 onwards, when NetMRI detects no switch downstream from those trunk ports, the system correctly reports all end host neighbors of switched trunk ports in Network Explorer End Host and Connected End Host tables, Device Viewer/Interface Viewer neighbor tables, and in the Topology feature.
Virtual Machines acting as De Facto end hosts in the network, including VMs that directly communicate through a switch port, and VMs communicating through a 'virtual switch,' which in turn communicates through a switch port, will not appear in End Host-related tables and pages. NetMRI will discover such VMs but they are not visible in End Hosts tables. Virtual switches are also not supported by NetMRI. Virtual machine-based hosts appear on the Network Explorer >Â Inventory page under Connected End Hosts, but their entries will not show switching infrastructure.