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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thank you for your reply Anthony. I assumed it would probably be static but wasn't sold on it, nice to hear that is what worked for you as well. Usually when I have conflicting docs, I pick the vendor doc nearest the technology I am working on, this case being VMWare but I didn't have the luxury of trial/error this go-round.<br><br>I err'ed on the side of caution and used the native load balance with standard NIC teaming (no etherchannel / switch-side config). <br><br>Good one for the next time around though, thanks again!<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Ryan<br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: avholloway+cisco-voip@gmail.com<br>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:03:28 +0000<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] BE6k NIC Teaming / Etherchannel question<br>To: ryanhuff@outlook.com; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><br><div dir="ltr">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).<div><br></div><div>Also, this youtube video says to use On as well: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dhxqlH_0_I" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dhxqlH_0_I</a></div></div><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:04 AM Ryan Huff <<a href="mailto:ryanhuff@outlook.com">ryanhuff@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><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><a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/BE6000/InstallationGuide/10_01/Deploying_Expressway_with_Business_Edition.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/BE6000/InstallationGuide/10_01/Deploying_Expressway_with_Business_Edition.pdf</a><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></div>
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