1. Say I have a vswitch with two active active pnic adapters. On this vswitch I have two IPs assigned, one portgroup for the service console, the other for vmkernel. (they both route to the sa...
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1. Say I have a vswitch with two active active pnic adapters. On this vswitch I have two IPs assigned, one portgroup for the service console, the other for vmkernel. (they both route to the same gateway) Is is an acceptable configuration to keep an active / active configuration for both port groups. If so why? It appears to work just fine, but I've been challenged on this scenario. Or should I have something like this: SC - vmnic 0 active, vmnic 1 standby VMkernel - vmnic 1 active, vmnic 0 standy. We are using the default vswitch properties, so <span class="Interface"><span class="Interface"> The distribution of the network traffic with a single Service Console port and a single VMkernel port on a vSwitch with 2 active uplinks and the default load balancing setting will result in the same spread of traffic as the active/standby config you described. All of the Service Console traffic will use a single uplink and allof the VMkernel traffic will use the other uplink. If one of the uplinks fails, then both the Service Console and the VMkernel would use the remaining uplink until the other is restored. With the configuration you shared, you decide which one of the uplinks is used for each, while the default load balancing setting will "pick" for you. Net result, no performance difference advantage, just explicit active/standby order that must be set for each portgroup. Dennis Bray VCI, VCP