[BBLISA] Faster than 1G Ether ... ESX to ZFS

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: Sean Lutner [mailto:slutner at rentul.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:20 PM
> 
> ESX absolutely supports bonding (teaming). It's a standard best practice
> configuration for your vSwitches if you want to do failover or outbound
load
> balancing. See the esxcfg-vswitch command for details. If you can and want
> to setup port channels (in IOS land) you can also control inbound traffic.
> There are plentiful blogs and vmware community posts about how to set this
> all up.

This is true.  In fact yesterday while I was doing something unrelated, I
stumbled upon those controls.  So it's pretty obvious, if you just give it a
try.

However, the fact remains, that bonding/teaming will still be limited to one
wirespeed for one connection.  So bonding/teaming might be useful if you
have a bunch of  machines talking to a bunch of machines...  But it won't be
useful if your ESX host is talking directly to one other host, for the sake
of storage.