" route based on the originating virtual port"

[Ibrahim Jamil]

Hello guys

Happy easter

on my ESxi , i have 2 vmnics acting as team active/active connected to 2 6509 no VSS

6509-1 root for vlan 10  , HSRP Active for VLAN 10

6509-2 root for vlan 11   ,HSRP Active for VLAN 11

1. pls advise on the above setup

2. what is best config for the ports where in vmnic is connected on 6509

3. what is the best load balance algo on the 6509? on esxi i made it like " route based on the originating virtual port"

thanks

[Deepak Kumar]

Hi,

AS I know about " route based on the originating virtual port" is not required EtherChannel on the physical switch. So you can configure only a trunk port and allowed VLAN 10 and VLAN 11 on this trunk port. This is becuase if any port goes down then Vswitch will calculate a new uplink for the virtual machine and forward traffic by another available NIC. But you mentioned that you had configured team on the Vswitch. Keep in mind that if you are thinking about load balancing then it will not work. 

So your configuration as:

interface gigabitethernet1
channel-group 1 mode active <Edited>
!
interface gigabitethernet2
channel-group 2 mode active <Edited>
!

interface Port-channel1
description Connected to Exsi

switchport mode trunk 

switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,11

Regards,

Deepak Kumar

[Ibrahim Jamil]

Hi Kumar

thanks for answering my thread

what about the below :

on my ESxi , i have 2 vmnics acting as team active/active connected to 2 6509 no VSS

6509-1 root for vlan 10  , HSRP Active for VLAN 10

6509-2 root for vlan 11   ,HSRP Active for VLAN 11

1. pls advise on the above setup

2. the 2 vmnics are Active/Active inside Team

3. why the channel mode you gave is auto

thanks

[Deepak Kumar]

Hi, 

Please confirm that your both 6509 switches are in VSS or working as standalone?

Q3. why the channel mode you gave is auto

Ans: The ACTIVE PortChannel mode allows automatic recovery without explicitly enabling and disabling the PortChannel member ports at either end.

Edited:-- I have edited some configuration becuase ESXi is supporting only LACP or mode on. So Please make it active.

Sorry: this was my mistake to mixed pagp and lacp. 

Regards,

Deepak Kumar

[Ibrahim Jamil]

Hi Kumar

thanks for answering my thread

what about the below :

on my ESxi , i have 2 vmnics acting as team active/active connected to 2 6509 no VSS

6509-1 root for vlan 10  , HSRP Active for VLAN 10

6509-2 root for vlan 11   ,HSRP Active for VLAN 11

1. pls advise on the above setup

2. the 2 vmnics are Active/Active inside Team

3. why the channel mode you gave is auto

thanks

[Deepak Kumar]

Hi, 

If your switches are not in a VSS and not working as a single logical switch then it is not possible to make multi-chassis EtherChannel. 

Now as you mentioned that you configured ESXi Vswitch as "route based on the originating virtual port" then you have two solutions:

1. Share VLAN 11 on the Switch 6509-1 with trunk port or access port and make an EtherChannel on Switch 6506-1 for your ESXi host. 

2. Change your Vswitch configuration and manual select NIC per VM and configure per port over the switch with single matched VLAN. 

Regards,

Deepak Kumar