topic Re: Is VPC reuqired for  LBT in vSphere™ vNetwork Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282177#M11581 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, it will not work. Route based on physical nic load with both nics active means that a single VM will only be active on a single physical nic at one time. If the load on the physical nic becomes high, one or more VMs will move to a different physical nic and when they move the movement will be announced with gratuitous arps.</P><P></P><P>Lars</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:48:42 GMT larstr 2019-12-09T22:48:42Z Is VPC reuqired for LBT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282173#M11577 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, </P><P>If I have one host connected with 2 pNIC connected to two different physical switches. Load balancing is LBT and active active for nic failover order. Do I need VPC between those tow physical switches ? </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_5.png"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15880iD918F7C063BEE7C3/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_5.png" alt="pastedImage_5.png" /></span></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 07:03:17 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282173#M11577 vSohill 2019-12-09T07:03:17Z Re: Is VPC reuqired for LBT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282174#M11578 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, you don't need VPC.</P><P></P><P>Lars</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 07:27:09 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282174#M11578 larstr 2019-12-09T07:27:09Z Re: Is VPC reuqired for LBT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282175#M11579 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>if there is VPC enabled? will this configuration work?</P><P></P><P>route based on physical nic load with both nics active</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:06:55 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282175#M11579 hussainbte 2019-12-09T08:06:55Z Re: Is VPC reuqired for LBT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282176#M11580 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Moderator: Moved to vSphere vNetwork</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:19:00 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282176#M11580 scott28tt 2019-12-09T08:19:00Z Re: Is VPC reuqired for  LBT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282177#M11581 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, it will not work. Route based on physical nic load with both nics active means that a single VM will only be active on a single physical nic at one time. If the load on the physical nic becomes high, one or more VMs will move to a different physical nic and when they move the movement will be announced with gratuitous arps.</P><P></P><P>Lars</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:48:42 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/Is-VPC-reuqired-for-LBT/m-p/2282177#M11581 larstr 2019-12-09T22:48:42Z