April 14, 20179 yr Has anyone successfully configured their UnRAID VM to bond mutliple vNICs in LACP mode? If so, how did you configure the ESXi side of it?
April 14, 20179 yr virtio para-virtualized adapter is 10gbps. You need more than that in a vm? Also, I could never get virtual bonding to work in os x. Didn't need it in windows 10 because of my first sentence.
April 14, 20179 yr Author Just now, 1812 said: virtio para-virtualized adapter is 10gbps. You need more than that in a vm? Also, I could never get virtual bonding to work in os x. Didn't need it in windows 10 because of my first sentence. "Need" is definitely not in this equation ;).
April 14, 20179 yr 3 minutes ago, IamSpartacus said: "Need" is definitely not in this equation ;). I understand completely. By all means, carry on!
April 15, 20179 yr 8 hours ago, IamSpartacus said: Has anyone successfully configured their UnRAID VM to bond mutliple vNICs in LACP mode? If so, how did you configure the ESXi side of it? not sure i understand your question.. i have 4port Intel Gigabit Nic attached to ESXi, and all 4 ports are in one vSwitch - with this you can't get more than Gbit from one connection but up to 4 Gbit connections to your VMs attached to this vswitch. every VM have a virtual 10G adapter to do so, you need to create new virtual switch on ESXi and add all nics to it, see picture. to get this available to all other devices on LAN, you need to bound these all 4 ports on your physical switch too. i have HP 1810-24G v2 and it works just fine. Edited April 15, 20179 yr by uldise
April 16, 20179 yr Author On 4/15/2017 at 1:43 AM, uldise said: not sure i understand your question.. i have 4port Intel Gigabit Nic attached to ESXi, and all 4 ports are in one vSwitch - with this you can't get more than Gbit from one connection but up to 4 Gbit connections to your VMs attached to this vswitch. every VM have a virtual 10G adapter to do so, you need to create new virtual switch on ESXi and add all nics to it, see picture. to get this available to all other devices on LAN, you need to bound these all 4 ports on your physical switch too. i have HP 1810-24G v2 and it works just fine. Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is bonding the two physical 10Gb NICs I have attached to the ESXi host running my UnRAID VM inside the VM itself. Those NICs are bonded via LACP to my vDS in vCenter. The issue is that when I add two vNICs so the UnRAID VM and try to bond them within the UnRAID WebUI, I lose connectivity until I remove the bonding configuration from the flash drive. While I get that it's overkill to have 20Gb of bonded bandwidth, I still want to test it as I have multiple servers/clients that access the NFS shares simultaneously. Edited April 16, 20179 yr by IamSpartacus
April 16, 20179 yr 22 minutes ago, IamSpartacus said: Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is bonding the two physical 10Gb NICs I have attached to the ESXi host running my UnRAID VM inside the VM itself. Those NICs are bonded via LACP to my vDS in vCenter. The issue is that when I add two vNICs so the UnRAID VM and try to bond them within the UnRAID WebUI, I lose connectivity until I remove the bonding configuration from the flash drive. While I get that it's overkill to have 20Gb of bonded bandwidth, I still want to test it as I have multiple servers/clients that access the NFS shares simultaneously. i'm not sure ESXi supports your 20Gb connection in such way you want.. when i made my config some years ago, i read that with ESXi you can't double speed but you can use it in parallel(not sure if something is changed to this on ESXi side)
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