Comments on: Load Based Teaming

By: vSphere 5, thoughts after 4 months of deployment (2/3) | | reduktor.netreduktor.net

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:59 +0000

[...] is to utilise the new “Route based on physical NIC load”, explained clearly over at Frank Denneman’s rather useful blog (another article to read is the one titled IP Hash versus LBT, also by Frank Denneman). Once [...]

By: VCAP-DCA Objective 2.3 – Deploy and Maintain Scalable Virtual Networking | The world of Marc O'Polo – Blog

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:41:25 +0000

[...] Source Frank Denneman blog: http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/07/load-based-teaming/ [...]

By: Tom Howarth

Tom Howarth — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:32:31 +0000

Dan,

a Layer 2 domain effectively relates to a VLAN, if that VLAN spans switches then the domain spans those switches.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:26:12 +0000

“all switches must be a part of the same layer 2 domain”

This means that you cannot connect the ESX nics to separated switches, only switches that are stacked?

Thank you!

By: Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:40:21 +0000

From a consulting perspective, I’m both extremely happy to see this…and also extremely annoyed.

Simply put, much of my customer base (I work in the channel) does not have or need Enterprise Plus (nor can they necessarily justify affording it when we’re up against Hyper-V).

So….I’m really happy to see this and plan to work it into my best practices setup….for maybe 20% of my customers that have Enterprise Plus.

By: NiTRo

NiTRo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:16:12 +0000

Thanks a lot Frank, it looks like you read my mind because i was thinking since few days to build a setup of some vESXi to test the efficiency of this new feature. Now i know how it works I’ll give you the results if you’re interested.

BTW, did you heard about some plans to implement that in standard vSwitches ?

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge !

By: LucD

LucD — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:48:38 +0000

Hi Frank, great post as always.
I have updated my dvSwitch post, see http://www.lucd.info/2009/10/12/dvswitch-scripting-part-2-dvportgroup/.
The script now supports teaming, including load based teaming as described in your post.

By: Rob B

Rob B — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:05:09 +0000

Thanks for the response Frank
Rob

By: vSphere 4.1 and its new CPU scheduler | P2V It!

vSphere 4.1 and its new CPU scheduler | P2V It! — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:11:23 +0000

[...] Denneman: Load Based Teaming, DPM scheduled tasks and VM to Hosts affinity [...]

By: thevirtualnews.com

thevirtualnews.com — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:36:40 +0000

Load Based Teaming | frankdenneman.nl…

In vSphere 4.1 a new network Load Based Teaming (LBT) algorithm is available on the distributed virtual switch dvPort groups. The option “Route based on…