Multiple physical NIC adapters connected to vSwitch / Port Group

[Vmware_Moron]

Hi,

I have multiple physical NIC on a host connected to a single vSwitch / Port Group, does this mean the network throughput is shared by the all the physical nics, or do I need to do something special to enable this feature?

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Thanks in advance.

[marcelo_soares · Accepted solution]

If all your nics are active in the nic teaming configuration, you must have a physical switch that supports link aggregation and you need to configure it. The ESX by itself does not do this kind of job.

In fact is a bad idea to leave all nics connected without configuring the nic teaming correctly (1 active and the others in standby for failover) or without having link aggregation.

Marcelo Soares

VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

Technical Support Engineer

Linux Server Senior Administrator

[Vmware_Moron]

Marcelo,

Pardon my ignorance, I'm new to Esx. Can you point me in the right direction how to setup nic teaming and link aggregation correctly? I'm using a cisco switch by the way.

[HitechCityHyd]

VMWARE_MORON

You can follow on these steps

Why dont you seperate the Network traffic ?

Create a new VSwitch for a Service Console port group and add one or two physical adapters for stand by mode if one physical adapter fails still another adapter will work by config NIC Teaming

you can configure NIC Teaming like this

Click on VSwitch proprites select VSwitch or port group click on EDIT tab then click on NIC Teaming then select Physical Adapters for Active Adapters or Standby Adapters click on Moveup or Movedown button

[jbruelasdgo]

review this: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/09/24/more-on-vswitch-load-balancing/

and this: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/07/16/understanding-nic-utilization-in-vmware-esx/

hope it points you in the right direction

regards

Jose B Ruelas

http://aservir.wordpress.com