HPE Aruba Networking & ProVision-based
1833783 Members
2453 Online
110063 Solutions
New Discussion

Load Balancing Policy on ProCurve 5406zl and ESX 3.5

 
Rainer von Bongartz
Honored Contributor

Load Balancing Policy on ProCurve 5406zl and ESX 3.5

I'm connecting two NIC's on a ESX 3.5 Server as a bond to a ProCurve 5406z switch.

I configured a trunk on 5406z but do not know which algorithm on ESX fits to the trunk.

ESX offers:

Route based on originating virt. port ID
Route based in IP hash
Route based on source MAC hash

Which on to choose for the trunk on 5406zl

 

P.S. This thread has been moved from Switches, Hubs, Modems (Legacy ITRC forum) to ProCurve / ProVision-Based. -HP Forum Moderator

He's a real UNIX Man, sitting in his UNIX LAN making all his UNIX plans for nobody ...
1 REPLY 1
Mohieddin Kharnoub
Honored Contributor

Re: Load Balancing Policy on ProCurve 5406zl and ESX 3.5

Hi

As per this Document:
http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/3500-5400-6200-8200-MCG-Jan08-12-PortTrunk.pdf

The actual distribution of the traffic through a trunk depends on a calculation using bits from the "Source Address and Destination address".

When an IP address is available, the calculation includes the last five bits of the "IP source address and IP destination address", otherwise the "MAC addresses" are used.

So i guess you can try with the IP or the MAC.

Good Luck !!!
Science for Everyone