RE: VMware ESX LACP Support

["Holmes,David A" <dholmes () mwdh2o com>]

ESX does support link aggregation, if by that is meant more than one Ethernet switch-to-ESX bundle, acting as a single 
logical pipe, and with stacked TOR switch configurations the bundles Ethernet links can connect to different TOR 
switches for redundancy. Nexus 1000V is better for network visibility and management, though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Smith [mailto:juicewvu () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 1:43 PM
To: Manu Chao
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: VMware ESX LACP Support

ESX does NOT support LACP out of the box.  Not sure about the nexus 1kv.


Thanks,
Josh Smith
KD8HRX
email/jabber:  juicewvu () gmail com
phone:  304.237.9369(c)





On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Manu Chao <linux.yahoo () gmail com> wrote:
> I would like to design VSS LACP based MECs with ESX hosts.
>
> Does VMware ESX support LACP?
>
> Do we need Nexus 1000 for ESX LACP support?
>
> R/
> Manu


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