NIC Teaming: ID v-port-based load balancing

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• NIC teaming with the IP hash load balancing

  Hi guys

  I have a virtual machine with a VMXNET3 10 Gbps. It is usually have a heavy traffic with a special server and saturate one of my two physical NIC of 1 Gbps in its PortGroup. I want to know what's going to happen if I turn on "NIC Teaming for this portgroup with basic IP hash load balancing". In my case the source IP address and destination are not change so the aggregates of traffic between my two physical network adapters?

  To avoid saturating completely the two 1GbE NIC, it can also be useful to look in charge based on the grouping and the NIOC. It will ensure that the other streams of traffic VM are not crushed by this machine a virtual when it saturates a network card. The disadvantage is that it requires Enterprise Plus licenses (using a dvSwitch).

• Override the port NIC teaming with powercli group?

  Hi all

  Any chance you could lend a hand?

  I have a powercli script that goes out to all of my ESX 4.0 host and add a new port group to vswitch1 with a new VLAN ID. That works well, but I also need to override the NIC teaming on this port group, to set an active NIC and the other to be the backup. (we put NIC failover port groups not the vswitches).

  I see ways to change NIC vswitches grouping settings, but am yet to find a way to change the settings of the NIC collection for groups of ports themselves with powercli?

  Can someone shine a light?

  Thank you

  Try something like:

  Get-VirtualPortGroup-name '' | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Game-NicTeamingPolicy - MakeNicActive "vmnic1" - MakeNicStandby "vmnic0".

  I hope this helps!

• The order of failover and load balancing

  Hello

  I have the following scenario. An ESXi with 4 Gbps vmnic. The questions are:

  (1) if I have a group of ports configured for 'Route based on the original virtual Port code' in the policy of balancing load, and for the same port group I the option button 'Override switch failover command"checked, where I set up 3 of the active adapters vmnic, as well as the other vmic remaining as unused adapter, the ESXi uses the policy that I have configured (in this case 'Route based on the original port code') between the three vmnic load balancing marked as active? Or he uses them in the order that they appear in the section active cards?

  (2) Suppossed, I configured the four physical switch ports in an etherchannel group to use 'Route based on the IP hash' load balancing policy. In this situation, then I configured for a certain group of port to only used two active adapters and two others as unused? In this case, ESXi should balance the load using the method hash IP but only in two active adapters? Or it is a misconfigiuration and I should not configure my nic teaming in this way?

  (3) the official setup guide says "NOTICE on IP requires the physical switch be configured with etherchannel. For all other options, etherchannel must be disabled. ». How can I I configured my virtual network, if I have a few groups of political ports based on the hash of the IP to use load balancing and another uses 'Route based on the original port code. This is the case when I for example have two management ports using the same vSwitch with four vmnic (where they are configured as an Etherchannel in the physical switch). I would port one or several groups for virtual machines that use the IP of the hash method of balancing the load and vmkernel ports por management uses only a single adapter active with no back and as "based on the source port ID" load balancing as best practices said.

  Now, the four vmnic is the same for all traffic. The physical switch ports must be configured in an etherchannel group because certain groups of ports will use the method of IP hash, but others are not. The configuration guide I said SHOULD NOT use etherchannel if I won't use the hash IP method, but I'LL use it, but only in groups of one or more ports.

  Maybe I do not share the same vmnic from this situation.

  Finally, it's a philosophical question. What is the difference between 'The route based on the source port ID' and the 'road based on the source MAC Hash' load balancing policy? What is the purpose of the second? It is assumed that if I had two different MAC address in a virtual machine, it would be because I had two different virtual cards inside the virtual machine, which would be connected to two different port ID in the vSwitch, I can use the first strategy (based on the original port code). In other words, which would be the case where I had the traffic entering the same vSwitch but port ID with different source MAC address, so I should chose the method to distinguish the Source MAC address load balancing traffic?

  Thank you.

  Guido.

  (1) as long as you override vmnic only and don't change the policy for this group of ports, he uses the policy configured at level vSwitch and use the selected interface 3 with this policy

  (2) it should work, I don't think it's a problem for the switch receive packets on a subset of the aggregation. I do not think that Etherchannel is supported (IIRC, it is a Cisco proprietary protocol, VMware only supports LACP passive, which corresponds to the Port channel world Cisco.) Trouble me if I'm wrong!)

  (3) I think that's all right, as I have explained in 2), there is no special negotiations with the consolidation of VMware, the important thing only I know is to configure the port on the side of the switch channel if you decide to use the IP hash (that will lead to important questions)

  4) (self labeled) I think it may differ in some cases individuals, as when the operating system use the same MAC address for both NICs (aggregation in-vm) or if you advertise several MAC address for the same network card (ESX in a VM for example would make for its VM). Such cases differently affect this setting.

  That is the right question, and I'm curious to know if someone wants to develop on it!

• DSwitch load balancing

  I have DSwitch 5.5 in vsphere 6.0

  Two 5.5 esxi hosts to connect to these virtual switch of two network cards.

  NICs works in IP HASH (the real switch side cisco 3570 I did port channel). Everything works fine, but I have question.

  Can I do a load balancing for a single host examle: IP hash, on the other - on the virtual port original? If say, how? I can see only one setting for all VDswitch

  

  

  Can I do a load balancing for a single host examle: IP hash, on the other - on the virtual port original? If say, how? I can see only one setting for all VDswitch

  As you can see on your screenshots, settings are for port group and not overall overall dvSwitch. You can have different settings for each physical ESXi host though, all guests must use the same algorithm as specified by the port or load balancing groups. If you want different settings by physical ESXi hist, then you will need to use the local standard and undistributed vSwitches, but we can ask the question of whether such a potentially unpredictable and inconsistent configuration is desirable.

  On a side note, you can set up several groups of ports with different parameters on a vSwitch (d). However, mixture etherchannel/LAG/LACP IP - hash based load balancing with any other balancing as virtual port ID in the same uplink / vSwitch (d) is not supported.

  In addition, it is not sensible, your acts only physical switch as a single channel for all traffic and will not be able to differentiate as several ports on an ESXi host groups could do.

• Http-plugin supports metric base load balancing? like Mod_OC4J!

  He supports balancing the metric-based in Oracle 10 g AS OC4J.
  
  It's a good way to spread the query load among OC4Js based on a metric which was reported by OC4Js.
  
  When load balancing based on the metric system is enabled, requests are routed between based OC4Js on the report of a defined metric, as the ratio of round robin, automatic relaxing... etc.
  
  
  WebLogic server HTTP-Plugin has similar features? Could experts suggest simiilar workaround (s) or solution (s) Please?

  Johna Pakas wrote:

  Sean KTN says:

  Kumashiro Shiniti wrote:

  Johna Pakas wrote:

  I think you should connect with Oracle Sales. Let them to clarify.

  It is a good idea.

  Since now, WLS have no metric based load balancing.
  For load balancing, you must configure the proxy servers.

  http://e-docs.BEA.com/WLS/docs103/cluster/setup.html
  http://e-docs.BEA.com/WLS/docs103/cluster/load_balancing.html

  Give them some pressure to release new features.

  My concern, metric according to load balancing is explicitly vital for most of the users using OC4J. Y at - it no alternative to measure loading WLS? As I can build module
  or plugin Web levels... of course raise this request to my sys development team exactly.

  WLS do support 3 types:-Round Robin load balancing, load balancing based on the weight & Random load balancing.
  In the near future, I guess they do not provide as metric base load balancing MOD_OC4J.

  If you like to take some tasks to measure, I sugget contact you your sales local oracle for assistance. They have probably you persuade enjoying service professinal anyway.

• LiveCycle servers behind a load balancer.

  Hello everyone.

  We have livecycle ARE set up behind a load balancer (F5 BigIP). We have problems with the JMS queues. We are able to connect to the administration console make changes, etc., and the product seems to work very well until the JMS queues are used.

  We are only ports 8080 load balancing and nothing else. So I'm wondering if we need to load balance more ports next to those. Of course, I've not found docs on this topic on the adobe site.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you.

  Your JBoss is not yet fully configured for LiveCycle 8.0.1.  There is a period of time what documentation of LiveCycle accidentally excluded the following configuration steps:

  Add the following XML to define the few plants connection to %JBOSS_HOME%\server\all\deploy\jms\hajndi-jms-ds.xml

  
      true
      adobe_JmsQueueXA
     
      JMS - ra.rar
      org.jboss.resource.adapter.jms.JmsConnectionFactory
      JMS adapter
      javax.jms.Topic
      JmsXARealm
      Java: / DefaultJMSProvider
   

  
      true
      adobe_JmsTopicXA
     
      JMS - ra.rar
      org.jboss.resource.adapter.jms.JmsConnectionFactory
      JMS adapter
      javax.jms.Topic
      JmsXARealm
      Java: / DefaultJMSProvider
   

• ESXi - NIC teaming/load balancing

  If I use two network cards on the back of my ESXi server that provide load balancing or is it just for the failover?
  
  Each card NETWORK must have its own IP address?
  
  I have to manually team network cards or is it an automatic process?
  Or ESXi provides only the load balancing, as appropriate...?
  
  If one of my virtual machines use it of full 1 Gigabit, another VM connection will use the other NETWORK adapter connected?
  
  

  To add to the reply by Dave - it's technically not not balancing load even if it is called VMware - the best description is load balancing - type three methods Load Balansing ESXi offers are:

  1. Port according to ID - this the method by default when you have 2 or more physical NIC connected to a virtual switch. The VM traffic is realized on a physical NETWORK card based on the VMs virtual port ID and is incremented in the style of round robin. So if you have 2 NICs physical network, the first drop of will traffic VMs that the first NIC, the second VM shuts down to the second NIC, third comes out first NETWORK card and operating system on - host ESXi does not resemble the traffic so if VMs 1,3,5 are heavy network users they will go on the same NETWORK adapter even if the second NETWORK card can be totally unused
  2. Address based MAC - based similar to port, but the physical NETWORK adapter is selected according to the MAC address of virtual machines
  3. IP hash database - the physical NETWORK adapter is selected based on the starting and destination IP address - so if a virtual machine connect to several IP addresses that traffic will be disttibuted on all physical network cards - note this will require LACp be configured on the physical spend this ost ESXi connects to

• Network of twinning with Port trunks to support the host ESX VShere 4 with several NIC for load balancing across a HP ProCurve 2810 - 24 G

  We are trying to increase production of our ESX host.

  ESX4 with 6 NIC connected to HP Procurve 2810 - 24G 2 ports; 4; 6; 8; 10 and 12.

  The

  grouping of parameters on ESX is rather easy to activate, however, we do not know

  How to configure the HP switch to support above connections.

  Pourrait

  someone please help with a few examples on how to seup the HP switch.

  Help will be greatly appreciated as we continue to lose tru RDP sessions

  disconnects.

  Best regards, Hendrik

  Disabling protocols spanning-tree on the Procurve ports connected to the ESX host is going to promote a recovery more rapid port. Similarly, running global spanning tree is not recommended if you mix some VLAN iSCSI and data in the same fabric (i.. e. you do not want a STP process to hang storage IO). Spanning tree on your switches, look PVST (or Procurve BPMH) to isolate the STP VLANs unique events.

  In regard to the load balancing is, by default (route based port ID) value algorithm requires less overhead on the ESX hosts.  You may not use LACP on the Provurve the lack of facilities LACP ESX. You must use "route based on the IP hash" sideways ESX and 'static trunks' on the side of Procurve. Unless you have specific reasons why your network need loads this configuration, I'd caution against it for the following reasons:

  (1) IP hash requires thorough inspection of packages by the ESX host, increasing CPU load as load package increases;

  (2) the static configuration puts switch physics rigid and critical ESX host port mapping. Similarly, groups of ports all will fail as the Procurve batteries for management only and won't be on switches 802.3ad circuits Group (i.e. all ports of a group of circuits must be linked to a single switch) - this isn't a limitation of the port ID routing;

  (3) K.I.S.S. love port ID mix of port ID, beacon probe and failover on the port assignments you will get segregation of the raw traffic without sacrificing redundancy - even through switches.

  I hope this helps!

  -Collin C. MacMillan

  SOLORI - Oriented Solution, LLC

  http://blog.Solori.NET

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• NIC teaming + with leaves HP VirtualConnect and Cisco load balancing

  Hello

  I configure ESX infrastructure running on the blades HP (c7000 enclosure), VirtualConnect and Cisco 3750 switches for the uplink. My network configuration is based on the HP VirtualConnnect Cookbook, scenario 11.

  On the ESX Server, I configured a vSwitch with two NICs grouped. Each card can see a different network of VirtualConnect. Each VC network has active SmartLink.

  Each network of VirtualConnect is associated with two ports on a Bay of VC. These two ports are the uplinks in Cisco 3750 switches. Cisco switches are configured in a pile, and each port associated with the VC network is configured with LACP.

  Here are the facts:

  -Each network (Host A and host B) is properly configured for the LACP Protocol, in other words, the links are shown as active/active in the VC Manager.

  -Communication of ESX is good.

  -Failover and failback function OK.

  The problem: I can't get the load balancer to work. All virtual machines use a single bear. I tried different algorithms on the server ESX (source port ID, mac, IP hash hash) and the configuration of the equivalent from Cisco.

  I have attached a diagram of the physical network, but also the setting to ports.

  What Miss me? Thank you very much

  Pablo

  Because you want to create technically not a channel in an ESX perspective, you do want to use the hash of the IP.  If ESX attempts to send traffic through the two network cards, the cisco switch should drop this package as part of its loop avoidance algorithms.  You should be able to check that out in the switch port statistics.  You should not use the switch port ID.

  Not sure about the promiscuous mode.  Who do not have any account, as far as load balancing is concerned, unless the portgroup was not properly inherit the vSwitch properties?

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Policy on NICs 1 Gb load balancing

  I use 6 x 1 GB NIC on the blades.  I have 2 NICs on board and 4 network cards provided by a single Mezzanine Card.  I have chosen a strategy of load balancing.  In view of the provision below, is there a reason to use load teaming instead of road based on the source port ID-based? I am allowed to use the load to team up if I want to but I don't know if there is no reason in this scenario-based:

  On Board 1 - Active MGMT, ensures vMotion

  2-edge - Production assets traffic

  Mez 1 - Active backup traffic

  MEZ 2 - Production assets traffic

  Martin 3 - Active backup traffic

  Mez 4 - Active vMotion, management standby

  If you have a license for LBT, use it. It is the only real policy load balancing that it monitors the load each NIC on a team and balances accordingly if there is an overload in one of the network adapters. Route based on origin Port ID just spreads the VM on the uplink (round robin) and does not care if one of the uplinks is most used and a used sub.

  I recommend using LBT on your Production and perhaps your backup traffic.

• Difference between the Port ID of the load balancer and MAC?

  There are three strategies for load balancing in 4.0 (one more now in 4.1):

  Function hash IP route

  Route based on the originating Virtual Port ID

  Route in function interference source to the MAC

  I think that I understand perfectly the "IP hash" and how it relates to switches, but what really is the difference between 'source MAC' and 'Port ID'?

  They seems both to do something very similar, which is attached a VM to a physical network card. Why someone should choose the CBC MAC and why the Port-ID? Is there a difference in the way that traffic will extend that could be interesting, when you do a design?

  Hello.

  To simplify, to really all boils down to the formula used to distribute traffic natachasery.

  "Discover Ken Cline" [the great vSwitch debate - part 3 | http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/The-Great-vswitch-Debate%E2%80%93part-3/] "for many more details on each option works.

  Good luck!

• NIC Teaming port group

  Hi, if I have two physical cards on my ESX host and a group of ports on the vSwitch I selects two adapters to be 'Active' (the tab grouping of NETWORK cards), network traffic automatically load balance bewteen the two NETWORK cards? Or will be just to use a NIC and use the other if this switch NIC/phyiscal descendant? Is there something specific that should be set by checking the Load Balancing option?

  Screenshot attached.

  Thank you

  The virtual machine will use a physical connection.   Here is a link to the details.   http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/virtual_networking_concepts.PDF

• Client based in 12 G load balancing

  We have a JDBC configuration against an address scan with client load balancing enabled.

  Example:

  JDBC:Oracle:Thin:@(Description=(LOAD_BALANCE=on)(Address=(Protocol=TCP)(Host=xxxxxxxxxxxx.de)(port=xxxx))(CONNECT_DATA=(service_name=XXXXXX)))

  What I understand of Diference between Client-side and Server Load Balancing If you do not use the server load balancing, you can bypass by connecting the service that identifies a particular node of RAC name.

  
  

  My question is, if you have a connection pool object this configuration and if the name service maps node to goes down, what happens to the connection connection pool?

  
  

  Issue 1) Don't scan address switches to the available according to the name of the service node, then the JDBC driver on the client must file all embusked connections and reconnect the available node? or is all the agnostic client failure of node on and all the old connections available in the pool are available for use?

  
  

  
  

  The client side or server balancing side basically works for the same purpose. The difference is that you do not have all the customers to reconfigure then change something in the environment, such as adding or removing a node such as the side server.

  Answer your question...

  If you mean the shared server architecture by connection pool, the shared server session connected to node 1 will die and everyone shares this session should log. Failover is not automatic, you must specify the failover clause in the JDBC or TNS connect string:

  TEST_TAF =

  (DESCRIPTION =

  (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)

  (HOST = rac - scan.example.com) (PORT = 1525))

  (CONNECT_DATA =

  (SERVICE_NAME = test)

  (FAILOVER_MODE = (TYPE = SESSION) (METHOD = Basic))

  ) )

  Or if you use failover and load balancing services you set failover described below:

  for 12 c: srvctl $ add orcl db-test - oel6vm1 favorite-available oel6vm2 - tafpolicy BASE - failovermethod SESSION service service - failoverretry 5 - failoverdelay 60

  for 11g: $ srvctl add service d orcl if test - r oel6vm1 - oel6vm2 BASIC EI SESSION m - z 5 AW 60

  Was what you mean?

• What is the different NIC Teaming policy between vSwitch properties setting and Port-Group

  Hello

  I know that there r two ways to set NIC Teaming policy: vSwtich or Port Group.  What is the different?

  Who is the highest priority?    Could the port group properties overrides the setting of vSwtich? Or just inherit.

  ARO

  Ding

  Yes-