Hello,
After reading, trying and mostly failing all day, I could use a push into the right direction.
I have an ESXi 5.5 host with several VM's. One of them is a file server that read/writes a lot of data over the LAN. At this moment the only NIC in the ESXi host is regularly being saturated when multiple users read/write data over the network. The ESXi host has 2 (physical) NICs installed. Can I add the second (free) pNIC to the standard vSwitch0 and theoretically double the bandwidth of the ESXi host?
The 2 physical NICs are connected to a Cisco switch (2960G-24TC-L). On the Cisco switch side I have created an EtherChannel containing the 2 ports that connect with the ESXi host. On the ESXi host side I added the free available pNIC to the vSwitch0 and enabled Load Balancing under the tab NIC Teaming. (question, is this done in both Port Group Properties and Port Properties?) I tried several configurations but none of them create Load Balancing. I do have redundancy. I can disconnect any of the 2 network cables without loosing connection. But when I monitor both connected NICs, only one of them transfers the data.
I have added a few screenshots of my setup. Hopefully anyone can give me some hints.
Thanks,
Robbert
ps my title says 2 pNICs - 1 VM because I need to balance the load for the file server mainly (1 VM). Of course the other VM's will benefit too but what I don't need is to balance the different VM's over the 2 NICs (should that be possible)
