Hi everyone
I've only ever experimented with ESXi on servers with single NICs so this has never been a problem or question before but I'd like to know what the best way is when setting up an ESXi server that has 4 GbE ports. We have 2 switches and these are not stackable switches.
I'd like to have 2 of the GbE ports going in to one switch as a link aggregated group and the other 2 going into the other switch. So each pair of ports being an aggregated link using 802.3ad dynamic link aggregation with LACP, with a theoretical bandwidth capacity of 2Gbps. The management traffic and VM traffic should share the same vswitch. Basically I need to configure 2 pairs of vmnics with link aggregation to the different switches, then failover between those pairs.
To what extent is this possible with ESXi?
Does ESXi support LACP?
Any comments/suggestions with this setup?
Cheers, B