thanks! I guess I didn't read carefully on this one. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com" target="_blank">jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Redundant physical LAN interfaces are recommended</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cisco UCS B-Series connect to the LAN via UCS 6100, so use redundant 1Gbps or 10Gbps ports on the UCS 6100.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Computing_System_Hardware" title="Unified Computing System Hardware" target="_blank"><span style="color:#5a3696">Cisco UCS C-Series tested reference configurations</span></a><span> </span>ship with two or six 1Gbps Ethernet ports (two on the motherboard for C210 or C200 plus on C210 additional four on a PCIe NIC). The recommended best practice configuration when using this tested reference configuration is:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1.2pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:14.25pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">One or two pairs of teamed NICs for UC VM traffic. One pair is usually sufficient on C200 due to the low load per VM.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:1.2pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:14.25pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">One pair of NICs (teamed or dedicated) for VMware-specific traffic (e.g. management, vMotion, VMware High Availability, etc.)</span></p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:.5in;background-repeat:initial initial"><tbody><tr><td nowrap valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/File:NotePencil.gif" title=""Note" " target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5a3696;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="18" height="18" src="cid:image001.png@01CD3F43.5138AD40" alt="Description: Note"></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">On a server with both LOM and PCIe NIC ports, when creating a NIC teaming pair, use one port from the LOM and one from the PCIe. This splits the team across the motherboard and PCIe card, and protects against a failure of either PCIe card or the motherboard ports.</span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If using specs-based VMware support, other LAN interconnect options may be used, such as using Cisco VIC in NIV mode instead of multiple physical NICs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/QoS_Design_Considerations_for_Virtual_UC_with_UCS" target="_blank">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/QoS_Design_Considerations_for_Virtual_UC_with_UCS</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Jorge Rodriguez Aguila, CCVP-Voice</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Senior Voice/Data Consultant</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Netxar Technologies</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com" target="_blank">jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Erick Wellnitz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> cisco-voip<br><b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] etherchannel for UC on UCS?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Is etherchannel supported for UC on UCS? I want to make sure I'm not planning to do anything which might impact performance.</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>