Looks like the vmotion kvm check has flag for vmotion stack.
vmkping -I vmk2 -c 3 -d -s 8972 192.168.208.12 -S vmotion
vmkernel stack not configured
If -S vmotion is removed, ping is successful.
[root@hx-01-esxi-01:~] vmkping -I vmk2 -c 3 -d -s 8972 192.168.208.12
PING 192.168.208.12 (192.168.208.12): 8972 data bytes
8980 bytes from 192.168.208.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.312 ms
8980 bytes from 192.168.208.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.174 ms
Looks like the vmotion kvm check has flag for vmotion stack. vmkping -I vmk2 -c 3 -d -s 8972 192.168.208.12 -S vmotion vmkernel stack not configured
If -S vmotion is removed, ping is successful. [root@hx-01-esxi-01:~] vmkping -I vmk2 -c 3 -d -s 8972 192.168.208.12 PING 192.168.208.12 (192.168.208.12): 8972 data bytes 8980 bytes from 192.168.208.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.312 ms 8980 bytes from 192.168.208.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.174 ms