Hello Everyone,
As anyone been able to configure ESX 2.5.1 to use Etherchannel?
VMWARE’s documentation claims that ESX supports LACP to create an EtherChannel. As per VM support I have configured my ESX server correctly and it should use LACP establish an Etherchannel. However on my switch, I see no evidence of LCAP traffic of connectivity via the port-channel. See below for output.
Has anyone here, in the cisco community, got this to work? If yes, would you please advise and share sample configuration.
Regards
Output
core-rtr#sh interfaces port-channel 1
Port-channel1 is up, line protocol is down (notconnect)
Hardware is EtherChannel, address is 0000.0000.0000 (bia 0000.0000.0000)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Auto-duplex, Auto-speed
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is unsupported
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input never, output never, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 4d23h
Input queue: 0/2000/3/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
20 packets input, 1360 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 20 broadcasts (0 multicast)
0 runts, 4 giants, 0 throttles
4 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
32 packets output, 7017 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 4 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
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core-rtr#show etherchannel 1 summary
Flags: D - down P - in port-channel
I - stand-alone s - suspended
H - Hot-standby (LACP only)
R - Layer3 S - Layer2
U - in use f - failed to allocate aggregator
u - unsuitable for bundling
Number of channel-groups in use: 1
Number of aggregators: 1
Group Port-channel Protocol Ports
------+-------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------
1 Po1(SD) LACP Fa4/1(I) Fa4/3(I) Fa4/7(I)
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core-rtr#show lacp 1 internal
Flags: S - Device is requesting Slow LACPDUs
F - Device is requesting Fast LACPDUs
A - Device is in Active mode P - Device is in Passive mode
Channel group 1
LACP port Admin Oper Port Port
Port Flags State Priority Key Key Number State
Fa4/1 SA indep 32768 0x1 0x1001 0x401 0x7D
Fa4/3 SA indep 32768 0x1 0x1 0x403 0x7D
Fa4/7 SA indep 32768 0x1 0x1 0x407 0x7D
Note from Cisco’s docs: indep—Port is in an independent state (not bundled but able to switch data traffic. In this case, LACP is not running on the partner port).
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core-rtr#sh lacp 1 neighbor
Flags: S - Device is requesting Slow LACPDUs
F - Device is requesting Fast LACPDUs
A - Device is in Active mode P - Device is in Passive mode
Channel group 1 neighbors
Partner's information:
LACP port Oper Port Port
Port Flags Priority Dev ID Age Key Number State
Fa4/1 SP 0 0000.0000.0000 678158s 0x0 0x0 0x0
Fa4/3 SP 0 0000.0000.0000 678158s 0x0 0x0 0x0
Fa4/7 SP 0 0000.0000.0000 678158s 0x0 0x0 0x0
