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
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
2. Follow manual explaining better.
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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?
thanks
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.
-KjB
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?
thanks
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
