port-channel load-balancing method change

[rbirritwice]

Hello

I have in production state a nexus with a bunch of port-channel running. I have a serious doubt about performance regarding load-balancing on my port-channels.

NX5596-1# sh port-channel load-balance

Port Channel Load-Balancing Configuration:

System: source-dest-ip

Port Channel Load-Balancing Addresses Used Per-Protocol:

Non-IP: source-dest-mac

IP: source-dest-ip source-dest-mac

I would like to change the load-balancing method to src-dst-mac. I understand that this change is global. Will it be disruptive ?

Thanks

[Julio Carvajal · Accepted solution]

Hello Rodo,

Yes, it is global ( you can only have assigned one method to the entire Switch)

This will not be disruptive as it will change the new connections across the Nexus platafform, it will not break anything,

Regards,

Julio

[rbirritwice]

Indeed. I just made the change and nothing went down

Thank you

[steffenwebb]

Hi Rodo

Did your performance change to the better? I just changes to source-dest-ip because we use ESXi 5.0 hosts with port-channels where the wmware dvs is set to ip hash.

Regards Steffen Webb