Hi Bob,
thank you for your answer and suggestions!
Both my ESXi 7 VMs have 32GB of memory. I have read in some threads that sometimes memory issues on a single host can disrupt a whole cluster. But I figured 32GB hard reserved memory would be enough.
Here are my vmkping results:
[root@esxi7-alpha:~] vmkping -I vmk2 169.254.86.39 -s 8972 -d
PING 169.254.86.39 (169.254.86.39): 8972 data bytes
8980 bytes from 169.254.86.39: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.620 ms
8980 bytes from 169.254.86.39: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.726 ms
8980 bytes from 169.254.86.39: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.755 ms
--- 169.254.86.39 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.620/0.700/0.755 ms
[root@esxi7-alpha:~]
and
[root@esxi7-bravo:~] vmkping -I vmk2 169.254.192.23 -s 8972 -d
PING 169.254.192.23 (169.254.192.23): 8972 data bytes
8980 bytes from 169.254.192.23: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.638 ms
8980 bytes from 169.254.192.23: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.732 ms
8980 bytes from 169.254.192.23: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.831 ms
--- 169.254.192.23 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.638/0.734/0.831 ms
[root@esxi7-bravo:~]
Cheers.
Volker