Etherchanneling with vSphere

david foley · ‎10-09-2015

I am looking on how to go about getting Ether-channel working with a vDS with vCenter 5.5

we have a L3 Switch but since we already have our ip address set per vLan i think L2 Etherchannel will do.

i am using LACP protocol.

Also is load-balancing automatically enable and auto configured or do i need to configure it ?

here is some of the configuration that i am using Ether-channeling..

!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/13
description
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 27
switchport mode trunk
down-when-looped
spanning-tree portfast trunk
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
channel-group 1 mode active
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/14
description trunk
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 27
switchport mode trunk
down-when-looped
spanning-tree portfast trunk
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
channel-group 1 mode active
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/15
description trunk
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan 27
switchport mode trunk
down-when-looped
spanning-tree portfast trunk
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
channel-group 1 mode active
!

interface Port-channel 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 27
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
!
interface Vlan1
no ip address
!
interface Vlan27
description
ip address 192.168.27.254 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
!
interface Vlan2
description
ip address 192.168.2.254 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
!
interface Vlan28
description
ip address 192.168.28.254 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
!

paul driver · ‎10-09-2015

Hello

i have never touched vcenter but have had to create l2 ether-channels for connection to its ports and usually these are trunked

looking at your config I can see you have created the logical port manually

Which I have found is not a correct way to do it.

1) default the physcal interfaces and shut them down

2) then apply the channel group and more to these interface

3) this will create the port channel interface automaticity and from this interface you apply your trunk encapsulated etc

4) enable the physical interfaces

res

paul

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david foley · ‎10-09-2015

Hi Paul the Switch is already connect to a ESXi Host with vDS enabled if that helps,

i am looking at getting Etherchannel enabled.

when i set the default mode on

it was using Protocol Pagp which isn't supported by vCenter.