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lume001
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‎04-17-2018 04:48 AM
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ESXi vSphere 6.5 NIC Teaming

Hi,

we would like to set up a single esxi host with 4 fNICs to work with nic teaming. Is it possible to connect e.g. fNIC3 and fNIC4 into Team (vSwitch - PortGroup VLAN tag). Then on a physical network connect fNIC3 in CiscoSwitch1 (trunk port) and fNIC4 in CiscoSwitch2 (trunk port). If so which load balancing algorithm should we use. CiscoSwitch1,2 are not in stack. Thanks

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‎04-17-2018 06:49 AM
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Welcome to the Community,

With the default teaming policy "Route based on originating Port ID" you can connect the hosts's uplinks to any switch you want. This policy works in a round-robin manner, where a VM is assigned to a vmnic (uplink) when it's powered on, and failed over to another one in case of an issue.

With this configuration you can connect all 4 ports to different switches, provided that the ports are configured identically, e.g. all ports configured as Cisco Trunk (802.1Q) ports, with the same allowed VLANs.

André

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‎04-17-2018 06:49 AM
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Welcome to the Community,

With the default teaming policy "Route based on originating Port ID" you can connect the hosts's uplinks to any switch you want. This policy works in a round-robin manner, where a VM is assigned to a vmnic (uplink) when it's powered on, and failed over to another one in case of an issue.

With this configuration you can connect all 4 ports to different switches, provided that the ports are configured identically, e.g. all ports configured as Cisco Trunk (802.1Q) ports, with the same allowed VLANs.

André

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