Netgear GS110TP switch and NIC teaming on ESXi 5.1

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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!

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Noone who has experience here with nic teaming?

[brian89gp]

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.

 

 

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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

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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.

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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!

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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:)

[brian89gp]

802.3ad = LACP.  vDS only.

 

If you switch will do 802.ad then it looks possible with a standard vSwitch.

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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)