Hi,
I'm struggling to get NIC teaming (aggregating) between a ESXi 6.5 host and HPE switches.
Here are my VSwitch settings (interfaces inherit their settings from vswitch)
Link discovery, mode: Listen
Link discovery, protocol: Cisco discovery protocol
Security, Promiscuous mode: Reject
Security, MAC address changes: Reject
Security, Forged transmits: Reject
NIC teaming, Load balancing: Route based on IP hash
NIC teaming, Network failover detection: Link status only
NIC teaming, Notify switches: Yes
NIC teaming, Failback: Yes
NIC teaming, Failover order:
vmnic4 - 1000Mbps - Active
vmnic5 - 1000Mbps - Active
vmnic6 - 1000Mbps - Active
vmnic7 - 1000Mbps - Active
Traffic shaping: Disabled.
I think my vmware settings are more or less correct, or what?
However I need to know more about how to set up the HP switches, if LACP is used or not etc...
First HP switch: HPE 1920S-24G - JL381A
Menu item: Trunks / Configuration
Have configured three trunks with 4 ports each. All with a bunch of tagged VLANs.
Here are the default trunk settings:
Admin mode: Enabled
STP Mode: Disabled
Static Mode: Enabled (should it be dynamic to allow LACP?)
Load balance (5 choices, what do I select here??):
Source MAC, VLAN, Ethertype, Incoming port
Destination MAC, VLAN, Ethertype, Incoming port
Source+Destination MAC, VLAN, Ethertype, Incoming port
Source IP and Source TCP-UDP Port fields
Destination IP and Destination TCP-UDP Port fields
Source+Destination IP and Source+Destination TCP-UDP Port fields
Second switch: HPE V1910-24G
Menu item: Network / Link aggregation
Have configured three trunks with 4 ports each. All with a bunch of tagged VLANs.
The default setting for each trunk is:
Aggregation interface type: Static
(should I enable LACP for the ports here?)
If I should use LACP, it has its own menu item where I can select which switch ports to enable for LACP and the priority between the system and the LACP ports.
Menu item: VLAN / Modify Port:
Selected all trunks and changed all their ports 'Link type' from 'Access' to 'Trunk' type port.
I have played a lot with this and ended up with no traffic flow at all or only traffic via one of the interfaces...
Thanks a lot for comments on which settings are correct or if I need to do something else...
Tor