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Re: How to Team network cards in VMware esxi 5.0

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IP addresses do not get assigned to phyaical NICs in an ESXi server they are assign to the virtual NICs in the VMsor the virtual vmkernel ports of the ESXi host -  so each virtual machine will have its own unique IP address and what you will end up with is a DNS entry for each virtual machine that the ESXi host will have running on it -

 

The NIC teaming referred to in you attach image is not NIC teaming in the true sense of the word it is nore a load ditribution baded on NIC Teaming policy selected -

 

  1. The default - Route based on Virtual Port ID - a physical NIC will be selected based on the virtual port ID when the interface (either a VMs virtual nic or vmkernel port) comes on line and the physical NIC port is selectd in a round robin fashion once a physical NIC is sellected that is the only port the traffic will go out.
  2. Route based on MAC Address - a physical NIC is selected based on the virtual MAC address of the virtual NIC or vmkernel port
  3. Route based on IP Hash - a physical NIC  is selected based on the originating IP address and destination IP address for out bound traffic - so you can see this has the highest probability of distributing the outbound traffic across all NICs attached to the virtual switch - this will require the physical switch connected to the physical nics are connected to be configured for 802.3ad Link Aggregation -

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