Hello!
I have a question regarding nic teamming setup with active / passive cisco switching.
We have the current setup today: each esx4.1 host have two pnics connected to our cisco catalyst 4506 core as a teamming. Both pnics are configured with 802.1q trunking to enable multiple vlan ids. No issues so far as this setup is pretty simple.
Recently we are implementing a new switch core to function as a failover switch in active/passive layout. I tried to put another 2 pnics on each host (trunking enabled) on the secondary switch as standby cards, so our pretend-to-be setup is much like this:
PortGroups - vSwitches - 2 PNICS on SwitchCoreA (active teamming) - 2 PNICS on SwitchCoreB(Standby teamming)
However this setup brought me an issue. I won switch failover because when switch A goes down, both standby cards gets up on core B and network stands up OK, but i lost NIC failover, since when one active card goes down, ESX tries to put one standby card UP and messes up my entire teamming (nics at CORE B arent disable, the switch stays there at some sort of "passive mode")
i need to know if theres any setup which can make me achieve both NIC and Switch Failover at this setup
any help would be apreciated
Thanks
Rtunisi
