NIC Teaming with Foundry/Brocade

[bradbenz]

Has anyone configured NIC teaming with Foundry BigIron RX-series switches? I've attempted a few different configurations, all of which immediately halt traffic to the VMWare host machine.

Any ideas/guidance?

Thanks!

Brad

[Harish_Chilikot]

what is the vswitch/portgroup nic teaming policy are you using?

[bradbenz]

Policy is default:

Load Balancing: Port ID

Failure detection:Link Status Only

Notifiy switches: no

Failback: yes

Active adapters: vmnic0,vmnic1, vmnic2, vmnic3

Standby: none

Unused: none

[Harish_Chilikot]

do you have any link Link aggregation/port channel configuration in the physical switch?

[bradbenz]

Indeed I did; I built a LAG group using the 4 ports connected to the VM host:

lag vmware4 static
ports eth 15/1 to 15/4
primary-port 15/1
deploy

[Harish_Chilikot]

ok, can you remove this Link aggregation/port channel configuration from the physical switch and see if it works? The Link aggregation/port channel configuration should be done only if you are using the nic teaming policy "Route based on IP hash". thanks

[bradbenz]

I did remove the LAG config, and I'm movig traffic again; I'm just not certain that the links are actualy aggregating...

[jonnyit]

Has anyone figured out how to get 802.1AD functioning in Vsphere on Foundry/Brocade infrastructure. As soon as I enable link-aggregation the traffic stops as well. Remove the aggregation and the communication comes back. I've tried the same with trunking, no luck.

Anyone?

[jasoncllsystems]

Link Aggregation is actually refer to 802.3AD.

Only use IP HASH load balance with 802.3AD(Link Aggregation/Etherchannel) setup.

Hope I'm not get wrong about your question.

Regards,

Jas

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