Rickard Nobel wrote:
You could in theory do it on OS-level, but it would still have to pass through the physical NICs, which means you would have to create different portgroups and bind to different adapters, and then in some way distribute the load for the clients among these two vNICs. It might be possible to do, but does also increase complexity ever more.
If I removed IP Hash and had one vSwitch with two NICs, and then assigned to virtual NICs to a VM, would they each get "assigned" a physical NIC or could both virtual NICs attempt to route out the same physical NIC?
Rickard Nobel wrote:Gopinath Keerthyrajan wrote:
in LBT based on pNIC load the VM traffic will automatically moved to another pNIC. Here no need to worry of LAG/network load etc.....
Load Based Teaming is a very good option, however it is as you say only available on Enterprise Plus licencing and it will also never give a single VM more bandwidth than one physical NIC. If the goal is to really maximize the bandwidth for single VMs then IP Hash has to be used.
OK - I was going to get an evaluation of Enterprise Plus but it won't give a VM more than one NIC of bandwidth then it won't work for me.
My goal is fairly simple though... I have a file server VM and I want my clients (non-VM, remote network machines) to have as much throughput as possible. For example, if two client machines are copying files I want them each to get full gigabit speed from the server...