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ESXi 4.1 Network Trunking with Cisco and Netapp
Hi!
We have an environment with esxi 4.1, netapp (8.0.1 7-mode) and cisco 3750.
The netapp and cisco is connected with rrr10GB and the esxi is connected to the cisco with a port-channel of three 1GB connections.
In esxi we have made a vswitch of three 1GB nics and all is active and load balancing is set to MAC Adress Hash. The datastore is connected to the Netapp with NFS.
In cisco we have a portchannel with three 1GB ethernet ports. Each port is set with mode active.
Our problem is that we can't get the esxi server to run on more than one port at the time.
We have an environment with esxi 4.1, netapp (8.0.1 7-mode) and cisco 3750.
The netapp and cisco is connected with rrr10GB and the esxi is connected to the cisco with a port-channel of three 1GB connections.
In esxi we have made a vswitch of three 1GB nics and all is active and load balancing is set to MAC Adress Hash. The datastore is connected to the Netapp with NFS.
In cisco we have a portchannel with three 1GB ethernet ports. Each port is set with mode active.
Our problem is that we can't get the esxi server to run on more than one port at the time.
I think its because they are load balanced as load balancing is for 1 port to be active and change on load to the other port I would suggest turning load balencing off to test as the team should work together
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Thanks Paulsolov!
The nice thing about the 3750 is that you can create trunks across the switches if you have the cascade kit.
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Yeah, we have done that. :-)