ESX 4 NIC Teaming Question, how to see the results of a team

[Johnnyk1]

I have two Cisco switches that are stacked,

1 ESX 4 Server with 2 pNICs connected to vSwitch0

I've set the teaming in the vSwitch configuration to Route Based on IP hash, I did the same for the VM Port Group

I've set the switch to use ether channel and src-dst-ip

my quesion is where can I see that I have successfully teamed and now have 2Gb of bandwidth?

traffic is flowing fine for the VM's but I'd like to see that they have 2Gb in the single connection.

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

The IP hash policy doesn't give you a 2 GBit/s bandwith. It uses multiple NICs for outbound traffic. Each src-dst pair will only have 1 GBit/s.

see http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/the-great-vswitch-debate–part-3/

André

[Johnnyk1]

What command was he using in there to see what VM is using what exact pNIC?

[mwpreston]

Hi

This info is available by running esxtop...

Just log in start up esxtop

hit 'n' for networking...

that should show you all the mappings of vnic to pnic on that box...

Thats how i look at it anyways...