[cisco-voip] BE6k NIC Teaming / Etherchannel question

[Anthony Holloway]

I have seen the same confusion that you have run into, and ultimately, I
went by trial an error and landed on, On (Static On).

Also, this youtube video says to use On as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dhxqlH_0_I

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:04 AM Ryan Huff <ryanhuff at outlook.com> wrote:

> The flavor of VMWare that comes with the BE6/7k only has the ability to
> use a vSwitch, not a distributed vSwitch due the differences in licensing
> (Enterprise Plus being what enables the ability to use a distributed
> vSwitch).
>
> According to this VMWare KB article;
>
>
> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1004048
>
> When using a standard vSwitch, the only NIC Teaming load balancing policy
> supported is *Route based on IP hash*. When you translate that to an
> etherchannel in a Cisco IOS device, you are limited to a *static*
> etherchannel (*channel-group XXX mode on*).
>
>  However this article (Considerations for Deploying CiscoExpressway
> Solutions on a BusinessEdition Server);
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/BE6000/InstallationGuide/10_01/Deploying_Expressway_with_Business_Edition.pdf
>
> Suggests creating the Etherchannel using *channel-group XXX mode passive*.
>
> So my question is; which is the correct way to do a supported Etherchannel
> with a BE6/7k? It seems that changing the load balancing policy in the
> vSwitch to *Route based on IP hash* is correct, but I am questioning the
> actual IOS config; is it *channel-group XXX mode on* or is it *channel-group
> XXX mode passive*?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
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