The vCenter adapter provides alert definitions that generate alerts on the vSphere Distributed Port objects in your environment.
Health/Critical
These alert definitions have the following impact and criticality information.
Alert Definition | Symptom | Recommendations |
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One or more ports are in a link down state. | Symptoms include all of the following:
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Verify that there is physical connectivity for the NICs on the host. Verify the admin status on the port. |
One or more ports are experiencing network contention. | Port is experiencing dropped packets. | Check if the packet drops are due to high CPU resource utilization or uplink bandwidth utilization. User vMotion to migrate the virtual machine that the port is attached to a different host. |