Senior Systems Administrator

ITSysTech

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For the Cisco port settings would we make them active, passive or On? When we use &quot;auto&quot; in that document it changed the port to PAGP. <br />
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Example: SG550X(config-if-range)#ch<wbr />annel-grou<wbr />p 1 mode auto<br />
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-Cisco Model: C9200L-24T-4X
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it depends what you are trying to achieve, load balancing, or throughput, or both.<br />
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if you just make an active and passive link, then only one is active at one time, e.g. fail over
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We would like to do load balancing by bonding four ports on our Synology NAS.
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We have two ports on our Synology NAS that we would like to bond and use IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation (is this the best <a href="https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/connection_network_linkaggr?version=6" rel="ugc">choice</a>?) and than connect the bond to our Cisco Switch (which will than connect to our VMware ESXI 7 host's two ports). <br><br>The question we have is how do we configure our Cisco Switch to allow IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation for these two ports (passive, active etc.,)?&nbsp;
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We have two ports on our Synology NAS that we would like to bond and use IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation (is this the best
choice
?) and than connect the bond to our Cisco Switch (which will than connect to our VMware ESXI 7 host's two ports).
The question we have is how do we configure our Cisco Switch to allow IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation for these two ports (passive, active etc.,)? 

IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation Cisco Switch Configuration for Synology NAS, Using NFS 4.1

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