Distributed Switch and Port-Channels on ESXi 4.1

[Hypnotoad]

Hey All,

I'm trying to configure my uplinks for a distributed switch in ESXi 4.1 to a Cisco upstream switch. When I edit the uplink group I see that all the teaming and failover settings are grayed out. Why is that?

What should the port-channel protocol be on the upstream switch? I use LACP for my Nexus equiped cluster. This cluster is just the built in distributed switch in Enterprise Plus.

[ThompsG · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Team and Failover is configured on the Port Group not on the uplink group. If you select one of the Port Groups you will notice that you can make the changes.

In regards to port-channel question this is probably a good place to start: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100404...

Here is another good article on the matter: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf

There appears to be a lot of back and forth but basically the vSwitches do not support dynamic link aggregation (LACP). It needs to be set to static. This is where some confusion comes in as LACP can actually support static and dynamic.

Kind regards.

Message was edited by: ThompsG added link

[Hypnotoad]

Thanks. That worked. It seems backwards to me but it's working now.