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Port-channel Cisco vs. VMware ESX

RenĂ© Jorissen on April 4, 2008 • 5 Comments • Tags: #balancing #dst #esx #esxtop #etherchannel #ip #lacp #load #load-balancing #mac #port-channel #src #src-dst-ip #src-map

I have had different discussions with different customers about the load-balancing algorithms between a Cisco switch, configured with a port-channel and a VMware ESX server using multiple NICs. Our VMware consultants always choose Route based on IP hashes as load-balancing algorithm. This means that load-balancing happens on layer 3 of the OSI model (source-destination-IP). In … Read More