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ESX Server, NIC Teaming And VLAN Trunking |
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Thursday, 07 December 2006
by Michel Roth
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"There are actually two different pieces described in this article. The first is NIC teaming, in which we logically bind together multiple physical NICs for increased throughput and increased fault tolerance. The second is VLAN trunking, in which we configure the physical switch to pass VLAN traffic directly to ESX Server, which will then distribute the traffic according to the port groups and VLAN IDs configured on the server. I wrote about ESX and VLAN trunking a long time ago and ran into some issues then; here I’ll describe how to work around the issues I ran into at that time."
"Hopefully this information will prove useful to those of you out there trying to set up NIC teaming and/or VLAN trunking in your environment. I would recommend taking this one step at a time, not all at once like I did; this will make it easier to troubleshoot problems as you progress through the configuration."
Read this interesting article at blog.scottlowe.org.
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