Hi,
I fail to establish a trunk between switches my Nexus 5000 - 2000 and my Dell PowerEdge R710 server.
I already have a cluster of three server that works with trunk and configured as active on my new server.
someone has an idea?
Best regard,
Cirvent
In order to configure trunk both end should be a switch but here you are trying to configure trunk with a switch and a server which is not possible. You have to make sure that both end is switch then go for trunking.
If you are talking about an EtherChannel configuration, please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004048 which describes the necessary settings as well as the limitations.
André
milton123 wrote:
In order to configure trunk both end should be a switch but here you are trying to configure trunk with a switch and a server which is not possible. You have to make sure that both end is switch then go for trunking.
miltonThis is misleading. You can most definitely set up a trunk port between a Cisco switch and ESXi host.
I'm guessing that we're using the "HP ProCurve" perversion of this term which is a port channel. Again, this is also possible to an ESXi host.
ESXi only supports static EtherChannel (channel-group mode on). You cannot use LACP without a Nexus 1000V switch installed on the host.
This post should help: Sample configuration of EtherChannel / Link aggregation with ESX/ESXi and Cisco/HP switches