May 13, 201313 yr Hi, I have Unraid and Open Indiana running on ESXi 5.1 on a SM mobo X9SCM-F which has 2 gbit nics. I bought a Netgear GS110TP smart switch but am having some trouble getting load balancing to work. On the ESXi side I added the 2 nics to the Vswitch and selected Route base on IP Hash On the netgear side I added the 2 ports to the LAG configuration with LAG type set to static and says status Link Up! Now when I reboot my server boots but doesn't get an ip and I can't log in! Only when I set the ports back to normal on the Netgear I can connect again! Anyone has some experience here with Nic teaming? Much appreciated!
May 22, 201313 yr Unless you use the distributed vswitch (highly doubt you are), ESX does not support a LAG/LACP/Etherchannel or whatever you want to call it. Set them up as two individual ports on the switch, no LAG, and ESX will load balance between them. By load balance I mean that VM guest A will be put on port 1 and VM guest B will be put on port 2.
May 23, 201313 yr Author My switch has the option of using Static instead of LACP, like mentioned here : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1001938
May 23, 201313 yr Your netgear switch supports 802ad and so does exsi 5.1, so in theory it should work. I have the same switch connected to my exsi box and I'm thinking about setting this up too.
May 23, 201313 yr Author Your netgear switch supports 802ad and so does exsi 5.1, so in theory it should work. I have the same switch connected to my exsi box and I'm thinking about setting this up too. Well if you get it to work....plz tell me how you did it!
May 24, 201313 yr Only thing stopping me now is that I have the management vswitch on the same as the rest, afraid that ill mess it up and get myself a log of hassle:)
May 24, 201313 yr 802.3ad = LACP. vDS only. If you switch will do 802.ad then it looks possible with a standard vSwitch.
May 25, 201313 yr Author 802.3ad = LACP. vDS only. If you switch will do 802.ad then it looks possible with a standard vSwitch. specs: IEEE 802.1Q Static VLAN (64 groups, Static) Protected Ports IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) Port-based QoS DSCP-based QoS DiffServ IEEE802.3ad Link Aggregation (manual or LACP) IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees Protocol (RSTP) IEEE 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) SNMP v1, v2c, v3 RFC 1213 MIB II RFC 1643 Ethernet Interface MIB RFC 1493 Bridge MIB RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9 Auto Voice VLAN DHCP Filtering Auto denial-of-service (DoS) protection HTTP and HTTPS Ping and traceroute Power saving when link down RFC 2131 DHCP client IEEE 802.1x with Guest VLAN Jumbo frame support Port-based security by locked MAC addresses MAC and Ip-based ACL Storm control for broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast packets IGMP Snooping v1/v2 Port-based egress rate limiting SNTP Port Mirroring Support (Many to one) Web-based configuration Configuration Backup/Restore Password Access Control RADIUS Support TACACS+ and RADIUS support Syslog Firmware upgradeable PoE (46 watts of power budget)
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