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kracksmith
join:2004-07-14
Fullerton, CA

kracksmith

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VLANs from a Vswitch config Teamed Port

I configured a VM guest to a VLAN on the Vswitch. How do i go about configuring the 4 teamed port off the host into a vlan within the 4500 switch ports?
kracksmith

kracksmith

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oh, duh....
I need to just trunk it.

So I just need to trunk 4 ports on the cisco, then trunk the Vswitch.
HELLFIRE
MVM
join:2009-11-25

HELLFIRE to kracksmith

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Trunk or portchannel? Don't you love company a that just calls it a shovel
and company b that calls it a ground insertion management device?

Regards
cramer
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join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
Westell 6100
Cisco PIX 501

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VLAN trunk vs. Ethernet trunk vs. car trunk vs. elephant trunk... In the Cisco world "trunk" refers to vlans. channel-group or portchannel is an ethernet trunk (aka. LAG) Last I looked, VMware didn't do LAG, only redundancy. (I've not looked at what's new for ESX 4.1 -- it's been sitting here for months...)
meta
join:2004-12-27
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vSphere doesnt really need to do etherchannel. It can do active/active loadsharing across multiple 10g nics. Tagging (as in 802.1q trunking) to every vmware port should be standard procedure for any network guys. As those individual end vsphere infrastructure devices get bigger (think UCS big) the access layer really becomes a thing of the past. Virtual datacenters for the win.