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kopper27
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Switch configuration....

hi guys

I am including a basic Networking (NIC teaming design) using dual NICs for all the communication on some ESX 3.5

my questions are:

1. do I required any especial configuration on the Physical Swicthes like trunk? specially for vmni4 and vmni5?

2. what about NIC Teaming on ESX since I want both NICs active-active: Load balancing, Network Failover Detection

please let me know what I should have in account here

thanks a lot

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kjb007
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Not exactly. For link aggregation to work properly, make sure you use IP hash on the ESX vSwitch/portgroup config, and src-dst-ip on your switch. Without that, no "load balancing" will occur.

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MauroBonder
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2. Follow manual explaining better.

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kopper27
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1. Yes,

you need to configure LACP or Channel

Group in the two doors forming uplink with vmnics.

you mean ethernet channel that is for multiples net on the same channel right? I mean since DZM and Virtual Network are going to be on the same channel Am I right?

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MauroBonder
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The channel serves to increase the
capacity of you troughput ie he adds two doors and becomes a 1GB uplink
2GB (2 vmnics in teaming) within this channel you can configure trunk
with several vlans from network development, production and so on.
A vlan is the
segmentation of networks
The trunk is used for you to spend more
than one vlan on a cable network.

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There is no LACP support in ESX. You will need to create a static etherchannel configuration, with mode set to on.

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kopper27
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I can use any type of NIC teaming - I mean load balancing

  • Route based on the originating virtual switch port ID

  • Route based on source MAC hash

  • Route based on IP hash

with Link aggregation in static mode on right?

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Not exactly. For link aggregation to work properly, make sure you use IP hash on the ESX vSwitch/portgroup config, and src-dst-ip on your switch. Without that, no "load balancing" will occur.

-KjB

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