NIC Teaming
Virtual machines connect to the public
network through a virtual switch, which, in turn, connects to the physical
network interface (pnic). When the physical adapter or the adapter’s network
connection fails, connectivity for the associated virtual switch and all port
groups and virtual machines is lost.
To resolve this issue, you can set up your
environment so each virtual switch connects to two uplink adapters. Each uplink
adapter connects to two different physical switches. The teams can then either
share the load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among some or
all of its members, or provide passive failover in the event of a hardware
failure or a network outage.
You set up NIC teaming by setting the
HostNetworkPolicy
. The path to
the
HostNicTeamingPolicy
is:
HostConfigSpec.network.vswitch[].spec.policy.nicTeaming
If you specify NIC teaming for a virtual switch,
the
HostVirtualSwitchSpec.bridge
property must be set to
HostVirtualSwitchBondBridge
.
NIC Teaming
