NIC Teaming with more than 1 fisical switch.

[tropix]

hi all,

So, since to do a nic teaming using one fisical switch its only add another vmnic to a vSwitch. On ESX I dont made any config to failover works. All works fine.

But, I'm try to do a nic teaming with 2 vmnic using 2 fisical switches. I connect each vmnic to a different fisical switch on my LAN. I need to do a config on ESX box? I need to do a config on my fisical switches?

Regards,

Eduardo

[christianZ]

I think you don't need to do anything - but the best should be to test it.

[ZMkenzie]

Default behaviour in esx is to do a sort of "mac address balancing", so, it's not a real "teaming", a virtual machine is only on one port at a time so you wont need any special configuration on your switches.

[dominic7]

You won't need to do anything unless you want to utilize multiple VLANs on each physical port. Then you will need to look into 802.1q or 802.3ad trunking.

[admin]

There is nothing that needs to be done special to team across two physical switches.

[tropix]

Now works.

I'm using 2 D-Link DXS-33500SR. I have to configure link aggregation between the fisical ports used by vmnic0 and vmnic1.

I have to set up vSwitch0 properties on NIC Teaming (Load Balancing) Use explicit failover order and change Rolling Failover to YES.

On Aactive Adapter I put same order of D-Link, vmnic0 is master (or principal) to be used.

Thanks all.

Eduardo