We are using a “Route based on the originating virtual switch port ID” LB policy with "failback" and "link status" failover detection. We had an outage recently where a planned switch reboot turned into a switch replacement. Had I known about the switch replacement plans, I would have prepared the Host by removing those pNICs from the teams while the switch was being configured. Instead, the switch was replaced, the team detected a link, and some VMs began to move back to the yet unconfigured switch as expected.
My question is about "link status" failover detection with respect to disabled switch ports. In this case, the switch was brought up with all ports enabled. I wondered how the team would have reacted if they were brought up disabled. Will link status failback to a disabled port or does it treat a disabled port as down.
