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Best Practice connecting VmWare ESX with a Channel

o-ziltener
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Hello

which methode (fix,pagp or lacp) should I use with an ESX server and what other interesting point should I care about it?

The customer would like to connect the ESX Server to a WS-4006 Chassis with WS-X4013 supervisor.

many thanks for any input

Oliver

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Collin Clark
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Few server MFG's support PAGP, so you'll probably end up using LACP, which is fine (that's what we use). It's a straight forward setup.

interface Port-channel11

description ESX_Server 2

switchport

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport trunk allowed vlan 402,403,541-544

switchport mode trunk

switchport nonegotiate

no ip address

end

HTH and please rate.

Same as above, but we could not get LACP to work (ESX 3.0.1) and went with 802.3ad on.

We put the int in the channel-group using the following command:

channel-group 1 mode on

Works like a charm for us, but doesn't give you the nice stuff that LACP does.

Hi,

LACP is not supported:

"That switch or set of stacked switches must be 802.3ad-compliant and configured to use that link-aggregation standard in static mode (that is, with no LACP)."

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf

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