Fault tolerance switch port guidelines

I am setting up our lab to test fault tolerance. I plan to use a vSwitch sperate isolated FT and separate FT VLAN. Are there specific indications for siwthc trial paramΦtres I can give to my network group. I want to just make sure that the physical ports are configured before idelly I start testing.

I didn't know that your plan was to use vSwitch dedicated only for FT traffic and nothing else.

So, I recommended that you use the "load-driven" (new feature in 4.1) for a better distribution of traffic between natachasery on vswitch but also for network IO contol to partition the link between the different types of traffic. But you are right, as long as the vswitch is dedicated for FT, no need to use it.

The extent of the Cisco switch port config, if you run the two natachasery to the same switch, you can use etherchannel, although the single link 1 Gbit/s is more than enough for traffic FT. Also, I recommend to enable portfast on ports involved to avoid any interruption when other devices added to the network, triggering the spanning tree protocol recalucations.

For traffic to

distribue distributed by grouping network adapters, configure the virtual switch through which the logging

traffic flow on the road based on IP hash policy. This strategy uses

source IP address and destination of traffic flows to

determine the uplink. Pairs of feet between different hosts ESX employ more than

a pair of source address and destination for logging of FT.

To use the route depending on the hash IP policy, the physical switch ports must be configured etherchannel mode.

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