ESXi host connection lost due to CDP/LLDP protocol
You can observe some random and intermittent loss of connection to ESXi 6.0 host running on Dell servers (both Rack and Blade). It’s caused by a bug with Cisco Discovery Protocol /Link Layer Discovery Protocol. It can be also seen while generating VMware support log bundle because during this process these protocol are also used to include information about the network. What are these protocols for? Both of them perform similar roles in the local area network. They are…