I'm a bit of a networking novice when in comes to ESXi...
I'm currently on ESXi 6.5 (free) and I am running unRAID as a NAS on a single physical adapter. This unRAID VM has two Virtual NICs: one for untagged traffic and another Virtual NIC on a VLAN. Everything works fine.
I will soon have another adapter (making 2 in total) and I'd like to use in a LAG configuration. My question, how would one proceed to do this and would I still be able to maintain my currently setup with this?
In other words (not sure if the terminology is right here), I'd create a LAG with two physical NICs and then a vSwitch and use it no differently than a single adapter?
Also, I notice that the free version does static lag and not lacp. I'm not quite sure I totally understand the difference of the two? LACP is really for failover, right? But both do increase bandwidth?
Another question, if I get the paid license and install vCenter, I could manage LACP via that?
Thanks for you help/