VMware NIC Load Balancing and Teaming, the Math
While doing some research for NSX setups I found the urge to delve deeper into the calculations of some of ESXi’s load-balancing and teaming types that are available, below I have outlined the scenarios, calculations (where appropriate) and recommendations when it comes to choosing a NIC load balancing and teaming type. Virtual Port ID Your VMs all have single vNICs, You have multiple physical switches, the pNICs from the servers are striped across them, the switches aren’t stacked/don’t have an awareness of each other/are from different vendors (point here, completely different, no collaboration between equipment - any brownfield environment)....