Hello All,
I'm a little confused with the new enhanced features of the 5.5 vDS and trying to determine the best implementation for the front end of our VMWare infrastructure...any guidance would be appreciated because I can't seem to determine whether advanced configuration is necessary.
Here's the hardware and network setup I'm working with:
Each Host has 6x 10Ge Nics, 2 for host operations (MGMT, Vmotion) and 4 for Data (External VLANs). Network connections are trunked 2 vLans for Host OPs and 17+ for Data. Physical Links are split between Aside\Bside Fexs 2232 to 5000s.. The Data Ports are bound as LACP pairs then VPC'd for 40 GB of available Data and 20 GB for console.
I've seen some of Chris Wahl's videos, his Networking book and articles but am trying to determine if I need to switch to enhanced mode and go through LAG configuration? Is this a requirement? The other vDSs in the environment are either in basic mode probably upgraded by my predacessor from 4.x or a 1000v that needs to be phased out because of lack of Network team support.
Thanks in Advance...DGN