Virtual 3DS on ESXi

We're trying to get a new Sourcefire solution up and running. We're using the virtual servers rather than physical installed onto an ESXi 5.1 host.
We're running the 3DS in passive mode so we have 3 network adapters configured, 1 for management, 1 for internal traffic and 1 for external traffic (2 separate physical switches handle each).
I've configured the two physical switches to mirror from port X to port Y and connected 2 physical network ports on the ESXi host to each port Y on the physical switch.
I've created two separate vSwitches with each physical network port confgured in each, so vmnic2 is on vSwitch External and vmnic3 is on vSwitch Internal. vmnic2 is connected to Port Y on physical switch 1 and vmnic3 is connected to Port Y on physical switch2.
Each vSwitch and PortGroup has been configured to accept promiscuous accept MAC address changes and Accept Forged transmits.
With all this configured and from what I can find out this is how it needs to be configured, I'm not seeing any traffic on the 3DS. The Defence Center is showing no traffic and no connections.
Has anyone got any suggestions on what I've missed or how this is supposed to be configured?

How do I check if I can sniff traffic? I'm not seeing anything when I do a show itraffic-statistics on the 3DS.
update: I found out how to do a tcpdump from the command line of the 3DS and it's definitely receiving traffic from the mirrored switch port, so it must be a configuration issue, so passing onto the contractor doing that to fix.

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>>> On 9/5/14 at 12:56, in message
<[email protected]>,
magic31<[email protected]> wrote:
> HI Niel,
>
> xyzl;2318555 Wrote: >
>> The new installation will run on a Proliant ML350 G6 with P410i>
> controller
>> so we can use the raid capability to create two different logical drives>
> as
>> suggested.
>
> As you will be using ESXi 5.5 as host OS, it's not needed to split
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> youwant in perspective for "general performance" or redundancy reasons.
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>
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> sure you have a decent battery backed cache module installed, asthat will
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>
> Once you have your VMware server up and running, you can configure
> thetwo VM's with each two or more drives attached (on for the OS,
> thesecond or others for your pools).
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> toscsi 1:0, and so on).
>
>
> xyzl;2318555 Wrote: > Do you have any suggestions for the disk space that
> should be reserved> or
>> used for the Linux Native OS File System (/boot, /swap and LVM)?
>>
>
> Here's one thread that might be of interest (there are more
> throughoutthe SLES/OES
>
forums):https://forums.novell.com/showthread...rtitioning-%28
> moving-from-NW%29
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Cheers,
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