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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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).<br><br>According to this VMWare KB article; <br><br><a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1004048" target="_blank">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1004048</a><br><br>When using a standard vSwitch, the only NIC Teaming load balancing policy supported is <i>Route based on IP hash</i>. When you translate that to an etherchannel in a Cisco IOS device, you are limited to a <i>static</i> etherchannel (<i>channel-group XXX mode on</i>).<br><br> However this article (Considerations for Deploying CiscoExpressway Solutions on a BusinessEdition Server); <br><br>http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/BE6000/InstallationGuide/10_01/Deploying_Expressway_with_Business_Edition.pdf<br><br>Suggests creating the Etherchannel using <i>channel-group XXX mode passive</i>.<br><br>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 <i>Route based on IP hash</i> is correct, but I am questioning the actual IOS config; is it <i>channel-group XXX mode on</i> or is it <i>channel-group XXX mode passive</i>?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Ryan<br> </div></body>
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