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How to enable load balance of vmkernel networking

Hi,

I have a question about how to enable load balance of my vmkernel networking . My environment configuration is in the below:

1. Vcenter :4.1 ,about 10 ESX host :4.0 .

2. I have 2 physical network attached with 2 storage switch individually in each esx host . and add these physical network into a virtual switch which was included with 2 VMkernel network . the virtual switch is enable NIC teaming load balanceing by port ID.And both of the storage physical network is active .

3. My SAN Storage is NetApp 2020 which has 2 physical network connection , and configed as 2 VIF according to VLAN .

all of virtual machine is working fine such as vMotion ,etc..

And I also have already been enable multipathing for each lun in esx host by (Round Robin). And both iscsi connection of netapp iSCSI LUN is active .

But I found one of storage physcial network in ESX host always have no any network traffic . My question is how to make both of storage physical network working load balancing . Please help me out . thanks

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