[c-nsp] Crazy Port Channel Question

[Shawn Zandi]

You can't because MAC address learning would be based on port-channel not
physical ports.

Regards,
Shawn


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Joseph Hardeman <jwhardeman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> I have a crazy question about Port Channels and I think I already know the
> answer but just want clarification from people smarter than I am. :-)
>
> Since you can only have 6 port channels on a switch, if I want to send the
> same vlans down to bonded ports on vmware servers, can the same Port
> Channel
> group be assigned to multiple servers?
>
> For example Port Channel 1 running vlans 100-120 is set as the channel
> group
> for vmware server 1 and Port Channel 2 running the same vlans is set as the
> channel group for vmware server 2.  Can I use Port Channel 1 to both
> servers?  Or does it have to be a single port channel to a single
> server/switch?
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
>