Earlier this year I made a trunk connection between HP Procurve switch and a VMWare ESXi5. But now i’ve created a connection between a Cisco Catalyst Switch 3750 and a VMWare ESXi5
To do this you have to go to the configuration of you ESX Server and than the Network properties. Choose the vSwitch you want to configure with the trunk/Ether-channel to the Catalyst switch.
Choose like below the vSwitch and go to the TAB NIC Teaming
Put the Load Balancing on Route based on IP Hash
Click on apply / OK. Go than to the Management Network
At the Management network you have to configured the same settings as you did with the vSwitch.
Now we have to configure the Cisco Catalyst Switch.
default interface g1/0/44 default interface g1/0/47 int range g 1/0/44, g 1/0/47 channel-group 2 mode on
Configure the ports with the following configuration ( you can to this with the int range <interface> , <interface> command)
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/44 switchport mode access switchport nonegotiate spanning-tree portfast channel-group 2 mode on interface GigabitEthernet1/0/47 switchport mode access switchport nonegotiate spanning-tree portfast channel-group 2 mode on
Configure the Port Channel inteface
interface Port-channel2 description connectie-naar-ESX switchport mode access switchport nonegotiate spanning-tree portfast spanning-tree guard loop
Note: If you missed one of the steps in ESX you lose your connection with your ESX server. Be aware of this.
Note: removed Flowcontrol receive on because it cause issues on your port-channel
Cisco URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094714.shtml#catalyst
You have to set the load balancing method on the switch as well, using port-channel load-balance and set it to “src-dst-ip” which matches what ESXi uses:
#port-channel load-balance src-dst-ip
Note that you can’t specify how aggregated links are being loadbalanced per port-channel, so you need to take that into account when you have other port-channels.
That command I haven’t seen before well I’m going to take configure that aswell ( I’ve more ether-channel configurations on the same switch now )