Hello,
i´ve got some questions about esxi 6.0 (and 6.5) (all standalone hosts) regarding lag and mangementkernel
1) Today I wanted to create a static LAG between a cisco sg300-10 and a esxi 6.0 host with 4 nics, set the cisco to l2/3 algorithm and the vmware switch to route based on IP hash, shutdown esxi powered on the switch and restarted esxi, waited a few minutes, for esxi to come up again, but i could neither ping the esxi management IP nor one of the VMs.
The thing i can´t wrap my head around is: i´ve got the same thing running in the company I work for, works like a charm...
As i could´nt get it to work and the maintenance window at the customerside came to an end, I decided to just remove the LAG from the switches (esxi and cisco), set the 4 ports on the switch to 1Untagged and 100Tagged (Management-Network), works just fine.
2) Would it be better to create a LAG with LACP?
afaik every esxi after 5.1 supports lacp?
4) Would there be a better way to go about getting higher bandwith and at the same time redundancy?
I wanted to do it via static-LAG as it seemed to be the easiest way (and I´ve already got it work once....)
Fibre nor 10gbit are options.
From a colleague I´ve been told im a fool for even trying that, am I really such an Idiot for trying that?